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Laurie Simmons
In and Around The House II
Laurie Simmons

Laurie Simmons. Untitled #25, 2022
“I feel as deep a connection to language as I do to images, though they’ve always lived in separate compartments of my brain.
Writing sentences that convert to pictures feels oddly like a dream come true. I have no recollection of having had that dream but the process feels like it was born from an unconscious wish. It interests me that some people are frightened by AI picture making technologies and think it will be the end of art and create a generation of lazy artists.
New technologies frighten people. We know that Plato reported Socrates condemnation of the rise of writing. In this narrative Socrates insists that writing “will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it”. For me the fear and resistance to AI image generators makes the text to image process more appealing.”
— Laurie Simmons
The selection of 30 images for ‘In and Around The House II’ was thoughtfully curated by prominent AI artist and thought-leader, Claire Silver.
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Laurie Simmons
In and Around The House II #10, 2022
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In and Around The House II #14, 2022
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In and Around The House II #12, 2022
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In and Around The House II #15, 2022
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In and Around The House II #16, 2022
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In and Around The House II #18, 2022
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In and Around The House II #19, 2022
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In and Around The House II #20, 2022
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In and Around The House II #22, 2022
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In and Around The House II #21, 2022
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In and Around The House II #23, 2022
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In and Around The House II #24, 2022
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In and Around The House II #25, 2022
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In and Around The House II #26, 2022
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In and Around The House II #27, 2022
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In and Around The House II #28, 2022
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In and Around The House II #7, 2022
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In and Around The House II #6, 2022
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Artist
Laurie Simmons
1949 (USA)
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Laurie Simmons is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York. She received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (1971).
Simmons stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and costumed dancers as “living objects,” animating a dollhouse world suffused with nostalgia and colored by an adult’s memories, longings, and regrets. Simmons’s work blends psychological, political, and conceptual approaches to art making—transforming photography’s propensity to objectify people, especially women, into a sustained critique of the medium. Mining childhood memories and media constructions of gender roles, her photographs are charged with an eerie, dreamlike quality.
On first glance, her works often appear whimsical, but there is a disquieting aspect to Simmons’s child’s play, as her characters struggle over identity in an environment in which the value placed on consumption, designer objects, and domestic space is inflated to absurd proportions. Simmons’s first film, The Music of Regret (2006), extends her photographic practice to performance, incorporating musicians, professional puppeteers, Alvin Ailey dancers, Hollywood cinematographer Ed Lachman, and actress Meryl Streep.
She has received many awards, including 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). She has had major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006); Baltimore Museum of Art (1997); San Jose Museum of Art, California (1990); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1987); and she has participated in two Whitney Biennial exhibitions (1985, 1991).
Press + Articles
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Art + Tech: Laurie Simmons (discusses her new AI project)
The Brooklyn Rail (video)