Addison exhibits Laurie Simmons's pioneering photographic series In and Around the House
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Tuesday, November 12, 2024


Addison exhibits Laurie Simmons's pioneering photographic series In and Around the House
Laurie Simmons, Woman Listening to Radio, 1978, gelatin silver print, 5 1/4 x 8 in., Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase and partial gift of the artist, 2015.31.



ANDOVER, MASS.- The Addison Gallery of American Art, located on the campus of Phillips Academy, is presenting Laurie Simmons: In and Around the House. The exhibition celebrates the Addison’s recent acquisition of a complete set of Simmons’s seminal series of photographs of the same name. Created by the artist from 1976–1978 at the threshold of her career, the 59 black-and-white prints depict female dolls performing the stereotypical chores of a 1950s housewife in dollhouse interiors constructed by the artist. Describing these poignant and melancholy images, Simmons has said, “I was simply trying to recreate a feeling, a mood . . . a sense of the fifties that I knew was both beautiful and lethal at the same time.” With this series, Simmons became one of the first of a generation of artists to use set-up photography to create images with intensely psychological subtexts and forcefully feminist content, and in doing so, pushed the boundaries of photography into the realm of conceptual art. The exhibition will be on display at the Addison through April 17, 2016.

“With this acquisition the Addison becomes the only art museum in the United States to own a complete set of this groundbreaking series,” said Allison Kemmerer, Mead Curator of Photography and Curator of Contemporary Art. “In addition to being a transformative addition to the museum’s photography holdings, In and Around the House offers a rare glimpse into the artist’s development, as these early images contain what became recurring subjects throughout her subsequent career—themes of artifice and fiction, gender and identity, memory and nostalgia. As a window on the evolution of this significant artist’s development and an interpretation of America at a specific period in time, it will be an invaluable contribution to the teaching mission of the museum.”

Two additional permanent collection exhibitions accompany the presentation of the Simmons portfolio. Further exploring the ideas of “house” and “home” contained in Laurie Simmons’s work, Walls and Beams, Rooms and Dreams: Images of Home assembles and juxtaposes historic and contemporary paintings, prints, photographs, and drawings by artists as diverse as Oscar Bluemner, William Christenberry, Thomas Dewing, Walker Evans, Kerry James Marshall, John Singer Sargent, and Francesca Woodman, that depict the multiple types of dwellings that humans have constructed for themselves, the many ways in which those spaces are inhabited, and the wide range of emotions and associations attached to them. Walls and Beams, Rooms and Dreams runs from January 23 through July 31, 2016.

One Thing Leads to Another…Selections from the Permanent Collection is a sequential gathering of objects both historic and contemporary from the Addison’s collection, chosen to provoke conversation and enhance understanding of particular topics, from masquerade and playacting, to the interplay of art and dance, the figure in motion, and images of the female form. Included in this show are works by artists such as Nick Cave, Hollis Frampton, John Graham, Eadweard Muybridge, Cindy Sherman, and Abbott Thayer. The exhibition is on view January 30 through March 20, 2016.










Today's News

February 20, 2016

For the first time the Rijksmuseum presents a large selection of its diverse fashion collection

'To Kill a Mockingbird' author Harper Lee dies at 89: Spokeswoman for Harper Collins

MoMA announces the first comprehensive U.S. retrospective of Francis Picabia

Best-selling Italian writer and philospher Umberto Eco dies aged 84: Italian media

The Hieronymus Bosch debate: Authorship of Christ Carrying the Cross questioned

Exhibition of works by Edward S. Curtis opens at the Palm Springs Art Museum

Mario Puzo's 'Godfather' archive sold for $625,000 at Boston-based RR Auction sale

Pace London presents The Calder Prize 2005-2015 at 6 Burlington Gardens

Exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery focuses on the world-changing designs of Albers and the Bauhaus

Important 19th century landscapist subject of long overdue international survey exhibition

Ground-breaking exhibition on mashup culture occupies entire Vancouver Art Gallery

Major outdoor and indoor exhibition of works by Steve Tobin debuts at Cheekwood

New public gallery opens in Letchworth Garden City with an exhibition of Richard Smith

Goss-Michael Foundation announces relocation within Dallas Design District

Exhibition of new works by Los Angeles-based artist James Welling opens at Regen Projects

10 That Changed America: New three-part series to debut on PBS

Kipling to Jinnah: Mumbai's crumbling colonial homes

Lynn Surry named President of The Al Hirschfeld Foundation

Tiwani Contemporary presents Gareth Nyandoro's first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom

Exhibition of new works by New York-based artist Garth Weiser opens at Simon Lee Gallery

Artium, Basque Contemporary Art Centre-Museum presents PIGS

Small Works: More or Less: Group exhibition opens at Nancy Margolis Gallery

Archival exhibition of works on paper by Cary Leibowitz opens at INVISIBLE-EXPORTS

Addison exhibits Laurie Simmons's pioneering photographic series In and Around the House




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful