http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/84891/lorna-simpson-wigs-portfolio-1994 ArtsConnectEd.org Art Collector Set: Lorna Simpson, <i>Wigs (portfolio)</i> (1994) http://www.artsconnected.org/images/favicon.png http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/84891/lorna-simpson-wigs-portfolio-1994 16 16 http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/84891/lorna-simpson-wigs-portfolio-1994 Mon, 01 Jun 1998 00:00:00 -0400 <table cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Title</td> <td><h3>Lorna Simpson, <i>Wigs (portfolio)</i> (1994)</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Author</td> <td><h3>Walker Art Center</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Date</td> <td><h3>1998</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label" style="padding-right:7px;">Institution</td> <td>Walker Art Center</td> </tr> </table><br/>For the past decade, Lorna Simpson's work has explored the role of hair as a marker of social identity. The 21 lithographic images in <i>Wigs</i> provide a taxonomy of hairstyles signifying gender, age, and race. The felt surfaces on which these images are printed present all of the hairstyles in the same texture, emphasizing and skewing our fixation on hair texture as markers of difference. By reminding us that wigs are hair that is unattached to a body, Simpson exposes hairstyle as an alterable or removable embellishment that may distort our understanding of what is natural or desirable in the human body. http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/84891/lorna-simpson-wigs-portfolio-1994 For the past decade, Lorna Simpson's work has explored the role of hair as a marker of social identity. The 21 lithographic images in Wigs provide a taxonomy of hairstyles signifying gender, age, and race. The felt surfaces on which these images are printed present all of the hairstyles in the same texture, emphasizing and skewing our fixation on hair texture as markers of difference. By reminding us that wigs are hair that is unattached to a body, Simpson exposes hairstyle as an alterable or removable embellishment that may distort our understanding of what is natural or desirable in the human body." type="image/jpeg" />For the past decade, Lorna Simpson's work has explored the role of hair as a marker of social identity. The 21 lithographic images in Wigs provide a taxonomy of hairstyles signifying gender, age, and race. The felt surfaces on which these images are printed present all of the hairstyles in the same texture, emphasizing and skewing our fixation on hair texture as markers of difference. By reminding us that wigs are hair that is unattached to a body, Simpson exposes hairstyle as an alterable or removable embellishment that may distort our understanding of what is natural or desirable in the human body." type="image/jpeg" />Copyright 1998 Walker Art CenterWalker Art Center