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Diane Simpson, Apron V

Diane SimpsonApron V, 2002

Enamel on aluminum and linen with vinyl mesh

69 3/16 &times

About the artist

Diane Simpson For over four decades, Chicago-based artist Diane Simpson has created rigorously constructed sculptures originating from clothing, furniture, utilitarian objects, and architectural sources. Attentive to the formal qualities of these vernacular references, Simpson playfully oscillates between two and three dimensional space by translating her subjects to schematic drawings and then, using the same tricks of pictorial illusion, transforming them back into actual space. The results are curiously flattened three dimensional versions of familiar objects rendered in a wide range of materials, from linoleum to perforated metal.

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