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Café of the Inner Mind: Men’s Room
Laurie Simmons
1994
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Laurie Simmons is best known for her photographs and films of scenes featuring paper dolls, finger puppets, and ventriloquists’ dummies, which explore gender, sexuality, domestic life, and consumer culture. Solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at the Baltimore Museum of Art (1997) and San Jose Museum of Art, California (1990), and galleries in the United States and abroad. She has participated in two Whitney Biennials (1985, 1991). Simmons received the Roy Lichtenstein Residency in the Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome (2005) and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1997) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1984).
[One] of the most evident features of New York photography has so far not been addressed by writers: the fact that, in every account, the great majority of the photographers concerned were or are Jews…
This terra-cotta bird figurine from Lachish, about 4 inches (10 cm) high, has outspread wings indicating flight. Like the Judahite pillar figurines, its base is a solid pillar flaring outward at the…