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LAURIE SIMMONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTION)

2007

“Season’s Greetings,” du Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland; 3 December 2007 – 27 January 2008, plates 14 – 16 (catalogue).
Rosenberg, Karen, “Laurie Simmons: Color Coordinated Interiors,” Art in Review, The New York Times, 19 October 2007.
Sheets, Hilarie. “In the Studio: Laurie Simmons,” Art + Auction, October 2007, p. 72-78.
“Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Gallery,” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, p. 50-55 (catalogue).
Budick, Ariella, “This artist’s camera does lie,” Newsday, 2 July 2007, pp. B4-B6.
"Exit Imagen y Cultura 25: Jugando (Playing)," February/March/April 2007, pp. 116-117.
"Laurie Simmons: Color Coordinated Interiors 1983," Skarstedt Fine Arts, New York (catalogue).

2006

Barrett, Terry. “Criticizing Photographs; An Introduction to Understanding Images,” McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 2006.
Sight Lines: Postwar to Contemporary Art, The Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Collection, New York: KKR & Co., 2005, p. 212-213.
Marcoci, Roxana, “Perceptions at Play: Giacometti through Contemporary Eyes,” Art Journal, Vol. 64, no. 4, Winter 2005, p. 19.
Princenthal, Nancy, “Laurie Simmons, The Music of Regret, at Salon 94,” from “Performance: You Had to Be There,” Art in America, February 2006, p. 53.
Sheets, Hilarie M., “Laurie Simmons,” ARTnews, March 2006, pp. 131-132.
Yablonsky, Linda. “The Sound of Silence,” Artforum, May 2006, pp. 75, 308.
Tassini, Eugenio. “Stile Collage,” io donna, April 2006, pp. 339 and 341
Dannatt, Adrian. “New York: Diary,” The Art Newspaper, May 2006, p. 41.
Scott, Andrea K. “First Picture Show,” Time Out New York, 18 May 2006, p. 77.
“Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, 29 May 2006, pp. 6, 18.
Wright, Karen. “Gallery,” Modern Painters, June 2006, p. 135
“Going on About Town: Laurie Simmons,” The New Yorker, 12 June 2006, p. 30
Cohen, David. “Gallery Going: Nordic Gloom & Dancing Mannequins,” New York Sun, 8 June 2006, p. 15
Braso, Emma. “Laurie Simmons,” Exit Express, June 2006, pp. cover, 32.
Valdez, Sarah. “Gallery: Laurie Simmons, Paper, June/July 2006, p. 128.
Lipsky-Karasz, Elisa. “Eye View: Art,” W Magazine, June 2006, p. 124.
The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984, exhibition catalogue, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2006, pp. 11, 75, 76, 107, 163.
New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, exhibition catalogue, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, pp. 428-429.
No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists, edited by Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig, Distributed Art Publishers, 2006, p. 350.
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, Portugal, 2006.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Hollywood’s New Wave,” ARTnews, December 2006, p. 145
Couples Discourse, Exhibition catalogue, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, 2006, pp. 26-27, 82-83.
Imagination Becomes Reality, Part V: Fantasy & Fiction, Exhibition catalogue, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, 2006, pp. 142-169.

2005

Smith, Roberta, “Performance Art Gets Its Biennial,” The New York Times, 4 November 2005, p. E33, E39
Rappolt, Mark, “Bookmark: Laurie Simmons: Walking Talking Lying,” Modern Painters, November 2005, p. 119.
Simmons, Laurie & Rosenberg, Karen, “This is No Cakewalk,” New York Magazine, 21 November 2005, pp. 82-83.
Linkler, Kate, Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying, Aperture Foundation, 2005.
“Don’t Miss!” Time Out New York, 15 December 2005, p. 118.
Rappolt, Mark. “Bookmark: Laurie Simmons: Walking Talking Lying,” Modern Painters, November 2005, p. 110.
Mendelsohn, Meredith. “Live from New York,” ARTnews, November 2005, p. 43.
Kinsella, Eileen. “Where the Buys Are,” ARTnews, November 2005, pp. 154 – 161.

2004

M.D., “Acquisitions: Laurie Simmons,” Guggenheim Magazine, Winter, p. 11.
Yablonsky, Linda, “Better, More Surreal Homes and Collages,” The New York Times, Sunday, February 15, 2004, p. 18.
Loos, Ted, “House Rules,” Vogue, March, 2004, p. 406.
“Laurie Simmons,” The New Yorker, 8 March 2004, pp. 15; 17-18.
Art Listings, Time Out New York, 4-11 March 2004, p. 59.
Diaz, Eva, “Laurie Simmons, ‘The Instant Decorator’,” Time Out New York, 11-18 March 2004, p. 80.
“Laurie Simmons: The Instant Decorator,” The Art Newspaper, No. 145, March 2004, p. 3.
Kellogg, Craig, “Quintessentially Barcelona,” Interior Design, March 2004, pp. 140-44.
Glueck, Grace, “Laurie Simmons: ‘The Instant Decorator’,” The New York Times, 26 March 2004, p. E36.
Miretti, Stefania, “La Passione per i Detersivi,” Amica, May 2004, pp. 133 – 136.
Brakewood, John Peter, “Laurie Simmons: Collages Volages,” Art Actuel, May/June 2004, pp. 60-61.
“Laurie Simmons, 7 March 1994,” from Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York, Judith Olch Richards, editor, New York: Independent Curators International (ICI), 2004, pp. 138-141
MacAdam, Barbara A., “Laurie Simmons: Sperone Westwater,” ARTnews, June 2004, p. 112.
Romeo, Filippo, “lezioni di bon ton,” CASE da Abitare, June 2004, pp. 56-65.
Storr, Robert, “Laurie Simmons,” from Disparities & Deformations: Our Grotesque, (Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe, 2004), pp. 122-123
“Laurie Simmons at Sperone Westwater,” Art in America, October 2004, p. 158.
“East Village USA,” Exhibition catalogue, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2004, p. 71.
“Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection,” Exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 236-237.

2003

Steinberg, Claudia, "Schöner Wohnen," Architektur & Wohnen, March.
Orvell, Miles, "American Photography," Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 174-181.
"The Instant Decorator (Wood Paneled Den)," Bomb, Issue # 85, Fall 2003 (cover).
Hainley, Bruce, “‘Designs for Living’: Margo Leavin Gallery,” Artforum, December 2003, p. 151.

2002

Deborah Schoeneman, "The Force is with festival trophies," The New York Post, May 12, p. 50.
Michael Kimmelman, "Laurie Simmons Photographs 1978-1979: 'Interiors' and 'Big Figures'," The New York Times, June 7, p. E36.
Vince Aletti, "Voice Choices," The Village Voice, June 18, p. 73.
"Photography, A Cultural History", Mary Warner Marien Laurence King Publishing Ltd, pp. 441-442.
Roberta Smith, "For a Paian to Heroic Women, a Place at History's Table," The New York Times September 20, p. E34.
"Visions from America - Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

2001

Matthew Ritchie, "People in Glass Houses," Frieze, March, pp. 62-63.
Tracey Hummer, "Modern Reduced," Smock, Spring, Summer, pp. 39-42.
Susan Fisher Sterling, "Reflecting on Women, Place, Memory, and Desire: Contemporary Photography in NMWA's Collection," National Museum of Women in the Arts, Summer, pp. 12-17.
Alanna Stang, "Honey, I Shrunk the House," Interiors, October.
"Little Worlds," essays by Anthony Kiendl and Jeanne Randolph, Dunlop Art Gallery, Canada.
"Play's the Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, pp. 27-29.

2000

"Seizing the Light: History of Photography," by Robert Hirsch, McGraw Hill, Boston, p. 450.
Helen Walters, "Rhapsody on Blue," Creative Review, March, pp. 73-76.
Jacques Barzun, "The Coming Age," Harper's Magazine, April, pp. 61-2, 65.
"Limited and Unlimited Editions," Artists Space (benefit exhibition), New York.
"Laurie Simmons: A House without Dolls," LIFE: The 2000 Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards, Spring, p. 53.
Suqi, Rima, "Rainbow High," Paper, October, p. 48.
Viladas, Pilar, "Welcome to the Dollhouse," The New York Times, Home Design, Part Two, Fall p. 50.
Wheelright, Peter, "Peek-A-Boo Views," Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors, Fall.
"Ask Dr. Hip," U.S. News & World Report, November 13.
Amelia Jones, "Body Art/Performing the Subject," New Observations (New York), Winter.

1999

Rochelle Feinstein, "Leftovers," Art on Paper, Jan-Feb, pp. 34-35.
Petra Halkes, "Fils Invisibles et Souffles Fantomes: La Marionnette Dans L'Art Moderne et Postmodern," Omnibus, January, pp. 8-10.
Maura Reilly, "Laurie Simmons at Metro Pictures," Art in America, February, p.108.
"Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection," essay by Daniela Salvioni, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (cat.).
A.D. Coleman, "The Century's Most Influential Artists: Willful Provocateur," Artnews, May, p. 138.
"Art: A Comparative Study," by Jed Jackson, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Iowa, pp. 264-265.
"Aperture," essays by Vince Aletti, Madonna et al, Summer, p. 59.
Leslie Ava Shaw, "The American Century Part II," The New York Art World, October, pp. 14-15.
Andy Grundberg, "Crisis of the Real," Aperture, New York.
"American Photography: A Century of Images," produced by Middlemarch Films, PBS Home Video.
"Woman," ed. by Cecelia Dean, Visionare Publishing, New York.
"Criticizing Photographs," by Terry Barrett, Mayfield Publishing, CA, p.83.
"The American Century: 1950-2000," by Lisa Phillips, Whitney Museum of American Art, p. 280 (cat.).
"Once Upon a Time in America," essays by Mohammad Mottahedan, Tony Godfrey, Christie's Books, London, pp. 83-85.
"Puppen Körper Automaten," essay by Pia Müller-Tam, Oktagon, Köln.
"American Photography: A Century of Images," by Vicki Goldberg & Robert Silberman, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, p. 216.

1998

"Spotlight: Making it Real," Gallery Guide, January, p. 13.
David Schonauer, "Eye of the Beholder," American Photo, March/April, p. 67.
Elizabeth Hayt, "The Ultimate Still Lifes," Elle, June, p. 62.
"Faces: Contemporary Photography," ed. by Matthias Harder, NGBK, Berlin, Germany.
Michael Steinberg, "Still Lives," House and Garden (New York), June, pp. 66-68.
Corinna Ghaznazi, "The Cultural Surrogates of Laurie Simmons," d'Art International (Canada), vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 18-19.
Victoria Pedersen, "Exploring the Past," Paper, September, p. 146.
"Inside Job," New York (Arts section), September 28, p.106.
Vince Aletti, "Voice Choices," The Village Voice, October 20, p. 89.
Martha Schwendener, "Laurie Simmons," Time Out, October 15-22, p. 57.
Toni Schlesinger, "Shelter: Where Do We Go From Here?" Village Voice, October 27, pp. 70-78, 123-124.
"Fantasy," Visionaire, #26 (New York).
Scott Dietsch, "The New Surrealism Gets Real," The Villager, New York, November 4, p. 1 (Arts & Entertainment section).
Petra Halkes, "Phantom Strings and Hairless Breaths, The Puppet in Modern and Postmodern Art," Parachute, 92, Fall, pp. 140-23.
Dominique Baqué, "La Photographie Plasticienne," Editions du Regard, Paris, p. 291.
"Innerscapes," by Maurizio Pellegrin, Trieste Contemporanea, Italy, pp. 255-258.

1997

Robert Hirsch, "Exploring Color Photography," Third Edition, Buffalo: State University of New York, pp. 114/160.
"Your Portfolio," Bloomberg Personal, January/February, p. 111.
Michael P. Spelvin, "Three Exhibitions Open at Aldrich Next Sunday," The Ridgefield Press, January 16.
David Rimanelli,"A/Drift," Artforum International, February, p. 83.
William Zimmer, "Life with a Twist; Fiction - Based Photography, Realism in Paint," The New York Times, March 30 (Arts - Connecticut section), March 30, p. 12.
Vicki Goldberg, "Photos That Lie - & Tell the Truth," The New York Times (Arts & Leisure section), March 30, pp. 33-34.
Dominick Lombardi, "All the World is Staged," The Record-Review, April 11, p. 23.
Howard Halle, "Four on the Floor," Time Out New York, April 17-24, p. 41.
John Dorsey, "Photographer Gets Dummies to Say the Smartest Things," The Baltimore Sun (Arts section), May 25, pp. 4E, 1E.
Mike Guiliano, City Paper, May 28.
Melinda Greenberg, "Stuffed with Realism," Baltimore Jewish Times, May 30, p. 87.
Susan Ciccotti, The Photo Review, Volume 20, No. 2, Spring, cover & pp. 10-12.
A.M. Homes, "Normal Obsessions," Vanity Fair, June, p. 102.
Glenn McNatt, "Surreal Photographs - Real Memories," The Baltimore Sun (Arts section), June 1, pp. 1E, 6E.
John Dorsey, "Photos Demand Your Very Own Eyes," The Baltimore Sun (Arts section), June 2, pp. 1D, 3D.
Glenn Dixon, "Dummy Love," City Paper-Washington, Vol. 17, No. 23.
Mike Giuliano, "Simmons' Superb Suburban Realism," LifeTIMES, June 25-July 1.
Vicki Goldberg, "The Doll Houses that Sheltered so Many Dreams," The New York Times (Arts & Leisure), July 6, p. 31.
Frank Ahrens, "Laurie Simmons Toys with Reality," The Washington Post (Arts section), July 20, pp. G1, G8.
Jennifer Michalski, "This Woman's Work," Baltimore Alternative, July.
Monroe Denton, "Laurie Simmons," Arti, October-December, pp. 158-177.
Dena Shottenkirk, "New York in Brief," International Contemporary Art, September-November, p. 43.
Olivia Lahs-Gonzales & Lucy Lippard, "Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century," the Saint Louis Art Museum. (September 23-January 11, ex.cat.)
Monroe Denton, "Laurie Simmons," Art Today, #36, pp. 160-177.
Blind Spot, no. 10, (illustration).
Andrea Codrington, "Public Eye," New York Times, November 20.
Bill Arning, "Dream Works," World Art, #15, pp. 48-53.

1996

Roberta Smith, "A Neo-Surrealist Show With a Revisionist Agenda," The New York Times, January 12, p. C23.
George Saunders, "Civil War Land - in Bad Decline," New York: Random House. (cover)
Robert Sabbag, "The Invisible Family," The New York Times Magazine, February 11, pp. 32-39. (photographs)
Penelope Rowlands, "CITY FOCUS: SAN FRANCISCO - Metamorphoses," Artnews, February, pp. 61-62.
"Modernism - Laurie Simmons" (review), San Francisco Examiner, April 5.
Viviane Esders, ed., "Our Mothers: Portraits By 72 Women Photographers," New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, pp. 122-123.
"Radical Images, 2nd Austrian Triennial on Photography 1996," Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz and Camera Austria in the Kunsthalle Szombathely. (cat.)
"Everything That Lives, Eats," Aperture, #143, p. 37.
"The Next Hundred Years," The New York Times Magazine, (fashion spread), September 26, p. 186.
"The New Theater Review," Lincoln Center Theater Publication, no. 15, Fall/Winter.
Malcolm Gladwell, "The Science of Shopping," The New Yorker, Nov. 4, pp. 66-75. (illustration p. 67)
Linda Yablonsky, "Laurie Simmons," BOMB, Fall, pp. 18-23.
"Visages et Visages Urbaines," Primavera Fotografica Barcelone, Cafe Crème, No. 17, pp.10-23.
"Art on the Edge & Over," ed. by Lesley K. Baier, Art Insights, Inc. CT, pp. 33-38.
Roberta Smith, "Finding Art in the Artifacts of the Masses," The New York Times (Arts & Leisure), December 1, pp. 43-44/46.
Martha Schwendener, "Catch My Drift," Time Out, December 12-19, p. 40.

1995

William Zimmer, "An Exhibition in New Rochelle that Showcases Sheer Invention," The New York Times, January 1, p. 12.
Michel Guerrin, "Laurie Simmons," Le Monde, April 3.
Hagen, Charles, "Two Teams That Challenge Tradition," The New York Times, June 16.
"Die Muse?: Transforming the Image of Women in Contemporary Art," in conjunction with Salzburger Festival, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris. (cat.)
John Pultz, "The Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers.
"The Monster Show," essay by Bonnie Clearwater, Museum of Contemporary Art, N. Miami. (cat.)
William Zimmer, "Portraits That Use Absence As a Vehicle of Expression," The New York Times, October 22, Art & Leisure Section, p. 16.
Stephen Todd, "Photo Finished," NOT ONLY Black + White, Australia, October, pp. 86-94.
"Playtime: Artists and Toys," essays by Eugenie Tsai, Angela Kramer Murphy, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Starnford, Connecticut. (ex.cat.)
"Jennifer L. Gauthier, Cynthia Roznoy," Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut (cat.)
Phil Richards & John J. Banigan, "How to Abandon Ship," FAT, Winter 1995/96, Issue #2, p. 43-35.

1994

Uyeda Seiko, "Quest for Lost Image," Seven Seas, March, No. 67, pp. 168-173.
Charles Hagen, "Review," The New York Times, May 6, C19.
"Photo: Laurie Simmons," The Village Voice, May 24.
Ingrid Sischy, "Photography - Wooden Ideas," The New Yorker, May 30, p. 24.
Pamela Hellwege, "The Photographic Work of Laurie Simmons," SchoolArts, May.
Joshua Decter, "Stupidity as Destiny: American Idiot Culture," Flash Art, vol. XXVII, no. 178, pp. 73-76.
Marcia Pally, "Sex and Sensibility," New Jersey: The Ecco Press. (cover illus.)
William Bartman and Rodney Sappington, eds., "Laurie Simmons," New York: Artpress.
Paul Gardner, "Lights, Canvas, Action: When Artists Go to the Movies," Artnews, December, pp. 124-129.
"The Perfect Companion," The New York Times Magazine, Dec. 1, photo-spread by Laurie Simmons.
Richard Vine, "Laurie Simmons at Metro Pictures," Art in America, Dec., p. 95.
Georgette Gouveia, "Exhibits at Two Westchester Sites Are Likely to Chill and Thrill," Gannett Suburban Newspapers, Dec. 11, p. 5H
John Haber, "Gallery Going: Jenny Holzer and Laurie Simmons," http://www.haberarts.com.

1993

"Photoplay," Center for Fine Arts, Miami. (cat.)
"Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons," Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, Norway. (cat.)
"En Attendant Plus: Laurie Simmons à la Galerie Rizzo," Le Monde, May 5.
"The Uncanny," essay by Mike Kelley, published in conjunction with Sonsbeek '93, Arnhem, Netherlands. (cat.)
Chet Flippo, "Confederacy of Dummies," Harper's Bazaar, July, p. 38.
Brian Wallis, "Mike Kelley's "The Uncanny," Art in America, October, p. 55.
"October Portfolio One," October, Fall. (illus.)

1992

Nicholas Jenkins, "Laurie Simmons at Metro Pictures," Artnews, January, p. 119.
Gretchen Faust, "New York in Review: Laurie Simmons," ARTS, January.
Vicki Goldberg, "How to Warm a Postmodernist's Heart ," The New York Times, February 9, p. H33.
"American Art of the 80's," essay by Jerry Saltz, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento, Italy. (cat.)
"More Than One Photography," Museum of Modern Art, New York. (cat.)
Charles Hagen, "Two Goals in One Show: Diversity and Unity," The New York Times, May 29, p. C28.
"Laurie Simmons," Tema Celeste, No. 37-38, Autumn.
"The Edge of Childhood," essays by Barbara Coller, Donald Kuspit, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. (cat.)

1991

"Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. (ex. cat.)
"Anni Novanta," Galleria Communale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy. (ex. cat.)
"Sguardo di Medusa," Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy. (cat.)
"The Surrogate Figure: Intercepted Identities in Contemporary Photography," The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY; Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon. (cat.)
Charles Hagen, "Constructing a Universe of Chimeras," The New York Times, October 25, p. C28.
"Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art, New York. (cat.)
A.D. Coleman, "When Photos and Sculpture Get Married," New York Observer, November 11.
"American Art of the 80s," Electa, Milan. (cat.)

1990

Richard Kalina, "Laurie Simmons at Metro Pictures," Art in America, February, p. 14.
Hiroko Tanaka, "Art is Beautiful: Interviews with New York Artists," Tokyo "Viewpoints Towards the 90's: Three Artists from Metro Pictures," essay by Ronald Jones, Seibu Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo. (cat.)
"The Indomitable Spirit," essays by Marvin Heifferman and Andy Grundberg, The International Center of Photography, New York. (cat.)
Peggy Cyphers, "Laurie Simmons," Arts Magazine, February, p. 99.
Elizabeth Hayt-Atkins, "Laurie Simmons," Artnews, March, pp. 173-4.
Nancy Spector, "Laurie Simmons," Contemporanea, March, p. 88.
Craig Adcock, "Laurie Simmons," Tema Celeste, April-June, p. 62.
Dara Albanese, "Context of Scale," Cover, May, pp. 16-17.
"To Be and Not to Be," essays by Dan Cameron, Jose Carlos Catano, Regis Durand, Ch Xantal Grande, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona. (cat.)
Kathryn Hixson, "Chicago in Review," Arts, Summer, p. 104.
"The Decade Show," The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art; The New Museum of Contemporary Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. (cat.)
"Laurie Simmons," essay by Dan Cameron, San Jose Museum of Art. (cat.)
Constance Sullivan, "Women Photographers," Abrams, New York. (cat.)
"Umweg Moderne, Modern Detour," essays by Dan Cameron and Hildegund Amanshauser, Vienna Secession. (cat.)
Andy Grundberg, "Crisis of the Real. Writings on photography, 1974-1989," Aperture.
Eva Hallin, "Rekonstruktion/Dekonstruktion," Bildtingen, No. 4, pp. 3-9.
Irene Berggren, "Blickens tillintetgorelse," Bildtingen, No. 4, pp.10-23.

1989

Edward Ball, "The Beautiful Language of My Century," Arts Magazine, January, pp. 65-72.
Wolfgang Max Faust, "Kunst mit Fotografie heute," Wolkenkratzer Art Journal, January-February, pp. 24-45.
"Surrogate Selves: David Levinthal, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons," essay by Terrie Sultan, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC. (ex. cat)
"Making Their Art: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream: 1970-85," New York: Abbeville Press Publishers. (cat.)
Richard B. Woodward, "Taking Toys Seriously: Mini-Movement or Side Show?" The New York Times, February 26, Arts and Leisure section, pp. 40-41.
Susan Weiley, "The Darling of the Decade," Artnews, April, pp. 143-50.
Timothy Porges, "Chicago," Contemporanea, May, p. 8.
"The Photography of Invention," essay by Joshua P. Smith, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., and the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (cat.)
Gert Z. Nordstron,"Bilden I Det Postmoderna Samhallet," Carlssons Bokforlag, Stockholm.
"A Forest Of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. (cat.)
Vivian Raynor, "Photographic Works of Fantasy," The New York Times, May 17.
"Shifting Focus," essay by Susan Butter, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol and Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue).
"Laurie Simmons," essay by Ronald Jones, Galerie Jablonka, Köln (exhibition catalogue).
Harri Uusitorppa, "Kun Keinotekoinen on aitoa," Helsingen Sanomat, Helsinki, No. 7, pp. 73-76.
J.K., "Laurie Liebt Puppen," Kölner Stadt - Anzeiger, Köln, June 23.
Andy Grundberg, "The Grundberg 10," American Photographer, July, p. 44.
"The Desire of the Museum," Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York. (cat.)
Hunter Drohojowska, "The 80's: Stop Making Sense," Artnews, October, pp. 146-151.
Max Kozloff, "Hapless Figures in an Artificial Storm," Artforum, November, pp. 131-136.
Dan Cameron, "Recent Work by Laurie Simmons," Flash Art," November/December, pp. 116-118.
"Priorities," 7 Days, December 6, p. 88.
Edward Ball, "Laurie Simmons," 7 Days, December 6, p. 84.
Roberta Smith, "Laurie Simmons: Photographs, Louise Lawler: Installation," The New York Times, Arts and Leisure section, December 8.
Andy Grundberg, "The Mellowing of the Postmodernists," The New York Times, Arts and Leisure Section, December 17, p. 43.
Daniel Scheuer, "150th at f2: Snapshots of Contemporary ," Center Quarterly, The Center of Photography at Woodstock, NY, CQ# 41, pp. 12-21.
"Image World: Art and Media Culture," essays by Marvin Heifferman and Lisa Phillips, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. (cat.)

1988

Roberta Smith, "Art: 'Media Post Media,' A Show of 19 Women," The New York Times, January 15.
"Media Post Media," essay by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, Scott Hanson Gallery. (cat.)
MATRIS, Malmo Konsthall, Sweden. (cat.)
Richard B. Woodward, "Laurie Simmons, Metro Pictures," Artnews, May, p. 161.
Shaun Caley, "Laurie Simmons, Metro Pictures," Flash Art, May/June 1988, p. 108.
Eleanor Heartney, "Laurie Simmons at Metro Pictures," Art in America, June, pp. 160-161.
"Nude," Fabrizio Ferri/G.I.P., Tokyo.
"Polemique a New York," Art Press, Paris, November, p. 7.
P.H. Meyer, "Laurie Simmons," Juliet, Trieste, October/November, p. 32.

1987

"Laurie Simmons, Water Balle Family Collision," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. (cat.)
Andrea Silverman, "Art and Advertising," New Art Examiner, January, p. 56.
Vicky Goldberg, "The Art of Salesmanship," American Photographer, February, pp. 28-30.
"Light Years," edited by James G. Alinder, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California.
Carol Squires, "The Monopoly of Appearances," Flash Art, February/March, pp. 98-100.
"Laurie Simmons," Tokyo: Parco Co., Ltd.
"Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective," essays by Lars Nittve, Germano.
Celant, Kate Linker, Craig Owens, Moderna Museet, Stockholm. (cat.)
"What the Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs," New York: Harper & Row.
"Ventriloquism by Laurie Simmons," artist's project, Artforum, December, pp. 93-99.
"Contemporary Photographic Portraiture," essay by Bernard Brunon, ELAC, Ville de Lyon. (cat.)
Anne Hoy, "Fabrications: Shaped, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs," New York: Abbeville Press.
C. Carr, "Books for Art's Sake," The Village Voice, December 22, p. 78.

1986

Christine McKenna, "13 Artists Share Their 'Remembrances'," Los Angeles Times, January 3, p. 8, part VI.
Vivian Raynor, "Split Vision," The New York Times, January 10.
Roberta Smith, "Allan McCollum and Laurie Simmons at Nature Morte," Art in America, January, pp. 138-139.
Colin Gardner, "Hermetic Images," Artweek, February 1, p. 5.
Gary Indiana, "Talking Back," The Village Voice, February 11, p. 84.
Dan Cameron, "Post-Feminism," Flash Art, February/March, pp. 80-83.
"Photographic Fictions," essay by Roni Feinpstein, The Whitney Museum American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, Connecticut. (cat.)
"La Magie de l'Image," essay by Paulette Gagnon, Musee d'art Contemporain de Montreal. (cat.)
"Origins, Originality & Beyond: The Sixth Biennale of Sydney," essay by Roberta Smith, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. (ex.cat.)
Andy Grundberg, "The Mix of Art and Commerce," The New York Times, September 28, p. 29, 35.
"A Fashionable Image: Unconventional Fashion Photography," essays by Carol Squires and Henry Barendse, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina. (cat.)
Eleanor Heartney, "Art and the Electronic Fishbowl," Artnews, December, p. 156.
"Remembrances of Things Past," Lane Relyea, ed., Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California. (cat.)
Carol Squires, "Photography and the Commercial Arena," Parkett, #11, pp. 125-129.
Jerry Saltz, "Beyond Boundaries: New York's New Art," essays by Roberta Smith and Peter Halley, Alfred van der Marck Editions, New York, pp. 104-105.
"Past/Imperfect: Eric Fischl, Vernon Fisher, Laurie Simmons," essay by Marge Goldwater, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. (cat.)
"This is Not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large Scale Photography 1966-1986," essays by Joseph Jacobs and Marvin Heifferman, The John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida. (cat.)
"Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946," essays by Andy Grundberg and Kathleen McCarthy Gausse, Museum of Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (cat.)

1985

Ron Warren, "Laurie Simmons," Arts Magazine, February, p. 39.
Therese Lichtenstein, "Laurie Simmons," Arts Magazine, February, p. 36.
Eleanor Heartney, "Laurie Simmons," Artnews, February, p. 143.
Andy Grundberg, "Ultra Downtown Pictures," The New York Times, February 15, p. C 20.
Kate Linker, "From Imitation to the Copy to Just Effect: on Reading Jean Baudrillard," Artforum, April.
"Tourism," portfolio of photographs, Wedge, #7-8.
Gerald Marzorati, "Picture Puzzles: The Whitney Biennial," Artnews, Summer, pp. 74-78.
"Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. (ex. cat.)
Larry Rinder, "Laurie Simmons and Allan McCollum: Nature Morte," Flash Art, No. 125.
Dan Cameron, "A Whitney Wonderland" Arts Magazine, Summer, pp. 66-69.
Lisa Liebman, "Almost Home," Artforum, Summer, pp. 57-61.
Kate Linker, "Ex-posing the Female Model," Parachute, Montreal, September/October/November, pp. 15-17 and cover illustration.
Kim Levin, "Art Walk," The Village Voice, October 22, p. 42.
"Public Art: A Blunt Instrument," essay by Ronald Jones, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta. (cat.)
"Subjects and Subject Matter," essay by Elke Town, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Canada. (cat.)
Susan Morgan, "Allan McCollum & Laurie Simmons: 'Actual Photos' at Nature Morte," Artscribe, London, December/January, pp. 82-83.
Beth Biegler, "Surrogates & Stereotypes," an interview with Laurie Simmons and Allan McCollum, East Village Eye, December/January, pp. 43, 64.
Don Bacigalupi, "Lie, Damn Lies, and Photographs," East Village Eye, December/January, p. 47.

1984

Kate Linker, "Laurie Simmons, International with Monument," Artforum
"Subjective Vision: The Lucinda W. Bunnen Collection of Photographs," The High Museum, Atlanta. (cat.)
Charles Hagen, "In Plato's Cave," Artforum, February, p. 78.
Dominique Carre, "Image Fabriquees," Les Photographiques, Nantes, France.
"Show and Tell," Vanity Fair, February.
Dan Cameron, "Art in the Future," East Village Eye, March.
"Painting and Sculpture Today," Indianapolis Museum of Art. (cat.)
"A Decade of New Art," essay by Linda Cathcart, Artists Space, New York. (ex. cat.)
"Women of Influence," essay by Dr. Britta Schmitz, Amerika Haus Berlin, West Berlin. (cat.)
Rosetta Brooks, "Guys and Dolls" (and cover illustration), ZG Magazine, Summer.
"Disarming Images: Art for Nuclear Disarmament," essay by Nina Felshin, Adama Books. (cat.)
"Between Here and Nowhere," essay by Rosetta Brooks, Riverside Studios, London. (cat.)
"Next Wave Festival," Brooklyn Academy of Music, pp. 44-50.
"Tourism," portfolio of photographs, Paris Review, #93, Fall.

1983

Roberta Smith, "Appropriation Uber Alles," The Village Voice, January 11, p. 73.
"Images Fabriquees," Centre George Pompidou, Paris. (cat.)
Kate Linker, "On Artificiality," Flash Art, March, pp. 33-35.
Andy Grundberg, "Seeing the World as Artificial," The New York Times, March 27.
Carol Squires, "Undressing the Issues," The Village Voice, April 5.
Ronald J. Onorato, "The Photography of Laurie Simmons," Arts Magazine, April, pp. 122-123.
"Laurie Simmons, In and Around the House: Photographs, 1976-1979," CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Stephen F. Eisenman, "Laurie Simmons," Arts Magazine, May, p. 49.
Therese Lichtenstein, "Laurie Simmons," Arts Magazine, June, p. 21
Modern Denken, front and back cover illustration, Rotterdam, July
"In Plato's Cave," essay by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalogue).

1982

"New New York," essay by Albert Stewart, University Fine Arts Galleries, Florida State University, Tallahassee (catalogue).
"Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art," essay by Roberta Smith, Committee for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (catalogue).
"Image Scavengers: Photography," essay by Paula Marincola, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (catalogue).
Mariette Haveman, "Staged Photo Events," Zien Magazine, Fall.
Guy Bellvance, "Dessaisissement et reappropriation: de l'emergence photographique dans la americaine," Parachute, December/January/February, pp. 9-17.

1981

Michael R. Klein, "Laurie Simmons," Arts Magazine, May.
Roberta Smith, "Laurie Simmons," The Village Voice, May 6.
Andy Grundberg, "Water Buoyed," Soho News, May 6.
Andy Grundberg, "Mixing Art and Commerce," The New York Times, May 24.
"Erweiterte Fotografie: Extended Photography," Internationale Biennale, Wiener Secession, Vienna (catalogue).
"Sun and Moon," portfolio of photographs and cover illustration, Spring, pp. 41-45.
"Trends," Time-Life Photography Year.
Ronny H. Cohen, "Color Photography: 5 New Views," and "Love is Blind," Artforum, October.
"Gallery: Laurie Simmoms," Art Express, November/December.
Julia Scully, "Seeing Pictures," Modern Photography, November.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, "Conventional Pictures," The Print Collectors Newsletter, November-December, pp. 138-140.
"Figures: Forms and Expressions," essay by Biff Hendrich, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (catalogue).
Tod Williams and Ricardo Scofidio, "Window Room Furniture Projects," The Cooper Union and Rizzoli, New York.

1980

"Invented Images," essay by Phyllis Plous and Steven Cortright, UCSB Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara (catalogue).
"Presences: The Figure and Manmade Environments," essay by Bruce Sheftel, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania. (cat.)
Ron Cohen, "Three Artists," Manhattan Catalogue, March.
"Laurie Simmons: color photographs from Sam and Dottie Dance," Real Life Magazine, Summer.
Andy Grundberg, "Still Life Comes Alive," Modern Photography, August.
Soho News, cover illustration, October 15.

1979

Ben Lifson, "Laurie Simmons," The Village Voice, February 12.

WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST

2005 “Laurie Simmons on John Newman,” BOMB, Summer 2005, pp. 80 – 81.
2003 "The Antidecorator," The New York Times, Home Design, Part 2, April 13, pp. 76-79.
"Guys and Dolls: The Art of Morton Bartlett," Artforum, September, 2003, pp. 204-207, 261.
"Laurie Simmons, In And Around The House, Photographs 1976-1978," texts by Carol Squiers and Laurie Simmons, Carolina Nitsch Editions, New York, pp. 15-24.
2001 "Ice Hotel," Index, April/May, pp. 113-115
1998 "Isaac Mizrahi with Laurie Simmons," Index, Jan./Feb., pp. 20-29
"Beauty 101: Laurie Simmons Searches the Web for the Perfect Shade," Index, September, pp. 81-85
"Claude Sabbah," Index, November, pp. 41-47
1997 "Toys Are Us: Jarvis Rockwell in His Studio," Artforum, October, pp. 82-87.

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