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Diane Simpson, Formal Wear also at the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

They’ve been building an incredible textile and material culture program here, been blown away every time I swing through.

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See sun, and think shadow Gladstone Gallery, New York

Diane Simpson

June 23 – July 30, 2016

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Christina Ramberg at KW Institute for Contemporary Art

THE WEEKLY PIC: This is “Peplum IV,” a 2015 piece by Diane Simpson. She’s a veteran artist from Chicago who is getting a sort of mini-survey in this year’s Whitney Biennial, in a room of her own down on the museum’s entrance floor. (I admit to having missed it on my first visit to the show, when I spent all my time in the main galleries upstairs.)

One way or another, almost all the near-abstract works on display in Simpson’s spread derive their shapes from clothing, usually women’s clothing, as far as I can tell. (A “peplum” is a kind of waist-level flounce on a skirt.) Although there’s now a rich tradition of women artists referencing traditional “women’s work” – and Simpson must have been an early adopter of that trope – I’m especially taken by her use of metal to do the referencing. I like the way it turns ladies’ clothes – even a floaty flounce – into armor. (Photo by Lucy Hogg)

For a full survey of past Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.

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