15 Mouths, 2002
- Artist
Lorna Simpson
- Title
15 Mouths
- Date
2002
- Medium
Fifteen Iris prints on velour paper mounted on Hahnemuhle copperplate paper with letterpress text on each page (individually framed)
- Dimensions
Each: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Frame: 12 1/8 × 10 1/8 × 1 1/2 in. (30.8 × 25.7 × 3.8 cm)
- Edition
Ed. 38/40 with 10 APs
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee
- Object Number
2002.10.9a-o
Many of Lorna Simpson’s early works, which combine photographic image and text, complicate and subvert viewer’s expectations. 15 Mouths features diverse, closely cropped images of mouths, accompanied by texts ranging from tactile adjectives such as “sumptuous” and “meaty” to poetic descriptions such as “a voice that darkened with age.” The work explores how assumptions about a person’s character can be based on physical attributes and differences, and challenges the human instinct to categorize people.
15 Mouths, 2002
- Artist
Lorna Simpson
- Title
15 Mouths
- Date
2002
- Medium
Fifteen Iris prints on velour paper mounted on Hahnemuhle copperplate paper with letterpress text on each page (individually framed)
- Dimensions
Each: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Frame: 12 1/8 × 10 1/8 × 1 1/2 in. (30.8 × 25.7 × 3.8 cm)
- Edition
Ed. 38/40 with 10 APs
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee
- Object Number
2002.10.9a-o
Many of Lorna Simpson’s early works, which combine photographic image and text, complicate and subvert viewer’s expectations. 15 Mouths features diverse, closely cropped images of mouths, accompanied by texts ranging from tactile adjectives such as “sumptuous” and “meaty” to poetic descriptions such as “a voice that darkened with age.” The work explores how assumptions about a person’s character can be based on physical attributes and differences, and challenges the human instinct to categorize people.