The artist takes us through a week in her life.
November 30, 2022
Welcome to Wet Paint in the Wild, an extension of Annie Armstrong’s gossip column wherein she gives art-world insiders a disposable camera so they can give us a peek into their corner of the madcap industry.
Laurie Simmons is an artist who needs no introduction, but since we’re here, I’ll write one anyways.
The Pictures Generation trailblazer is a New York icon, with a multiple-decades career that shows no signs of slowing down. I heard that Simmons’s next show would be at my pal Ellie Rines’s outpost 56 Henry, and thought, who better to take some photos for me than an artist who has challenged our perception of what a photo can be?
Click here to read her captions and see the opening, the country home she shares with her husband (fellow artist Carroll Dunham), and some insight into the Brooklyn Museum’s retrospective for Jimmy Desana, who was Simmons’s best friend (she’s been working as the executor of his estate for the past 32 years!). Onward!
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