Simone Leigh

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The Gods Must Be Crazy
Combining evocative terracotta forms with industrial elements such as medical equipment and radio antennae, Simone Leigh's hybrid sculptural works evoke the Pan-African references and space-themed gestures of Afro-Futurism. Leigh investigates concepts of the black body, labor and marking, most visible in the Timberland work boot imprint. Queen Bee is a marriage of these concerns and also a response to the influences of colonialism, as its form echoes European design in its chandelier-like construction. Queen Bee’s dependence on the radio antennae, a nearly obsolete source of communication, suggests a failure in advancement and relegates Queen Bee, despite the title’s references to empire, wealth and its metallic allure of futurism, to the realms of the archaic.


Simone Leigh
104 Montgomery Street
Brooklyn
New York, NY
11225
New York
North America

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MODERN PAINTERS, Introducing Simone Leigh, Quinn Latimer
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Benjamin Genocchio, Pub. 12/08
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Karen Rosenberg, Pub. 08/01/08
ARTINFO, Claire Barliant, (07/10/08)
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Penelope Green, (06/14/07)
ARTFORUM, Colby Chamberlain, (07/03/08)
RHIZOME @ THE NEW MUSEUM, Ed Halter (07/07/08)
ARTNET, Elisabeth Kley, (08/08/08)
Flavorpill review
The New Yorker review