Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons is best known for her photographed collages of domestic spaces. The elements in her elaborate rooms include dolls, figures cut out from magazines, sex manuals, cartoons, fabric swatches, and her own original drawings. An odd mixture of style, scale, and media, these works are both provocative and disturbing, artificial with a disquieting sense of realism.
Disparities and Deformations
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque brought together a diverse group of contemporary artworks that respond and give new substance to the sense of emotional and logical uncertainty inherent in the grotesque, described by the 19th-century writer Jean Paul as a state of “soul dizziness.” The exhibition tracked the incongruous combination of disparate forms and ideas in the work of internationally renowned artists of different generations, coming from various cultural contexts, and working with different processes and ideas.
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