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lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists
lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists
lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists
lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists
lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists
lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists
lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists
lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists
lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists
lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists
lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists
lorna simpson square deal square meal squared away menu for chanterelle restaurant new york city nyc october 22 1990 menu unique photograph silver gelatin print buy important art by american women 20th century black and white photography african amercan artists

Lorna Simpson

LORNA SIMPSON "SQUARE DEAL, SQUARE MEAL, SQUARED AWAY" 1990

$2,150

Lorna Simpson (b. 1960) is an American artist renowned as a pioneer of conceptual photography. Her artwork, regardless of medium, explores the interplay between historical memory, culture, and identity. 

Influential in post-colonial and feminist circles, Simpson’s work explores the ways in which race and gender shape human interactions, specifically in the United States. The use, and often combination of, portraiture and text are Simpson's signature elements. 

Simpson made this work for a menu on occasion of a benefit dinner at New York's famous Chanterelle restaurant supporting the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company. The restaurant was known for their artist-menu collaborations, working with Cindy Sherman, Cy Twombly, Nan Goldin, and Richard Prince, among others.

The menu cover is a paradigm of Simpson's oeuvre. The photograph's composition is tightly cropped, offering only a hint of detail and a high-contrast palette. Pairing the photograph with short, succinct, poetic verse, Simpson offers a meditation on a menu, a meal, without offering enough narrative to leave you full. The artist uses these devices to withhold narrative clarity and encourage close looking.

Lorna Simpson has been exhibited and collected by museums around the world. In 2007 the Whitney organized a retrospective of her work. Some of the other institutions that hold her work include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Haus der Kunst; Munich amongst others.

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"Square Deal, Square Meal, Squared Away" (Chanterelle menu for Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company)

USA, October 22, 1990

Gelatin silver print mounted on menu cover with letterpress text; Dated and inscribed in silkscreen, menu inside pages; Printed artist and restaurant credits letterpress, menu back page.

13.5"H 9"W (face, closed)

13.5"H 18"W (interior, opened)

Good condition. Full report on request.

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