![Installation view, Diane Simpson, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2015](https://www.icaboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/dianesimpson201512164268.jpg)
“Superb” —Boston Globe
Diane Simpson’s “dazzling” work will “knock you off balance.” — Art in America
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Chicago-based artist Diane Simpson’s (b. 1935, Joliet, Illinois) elegantly constructed sculptures evolve from a diverse range of materials, clothing, and architectural sources. While elements of her creations appear to effortlessly hang and fold, they are in fact the result of a rigorous approach to construction techniques, reveling in passages of pattern, joinery, and skewed angles that are by turns humorous and psychologically-charged. This concise survey of over 30 years of work will include a suite of preparatory drawings and sculptural work made from the early 1980s to the present in materials ranging from corrugated cardboard and medium-density fiberboard to aluminum, wool, polyester, poplar, faux fur, fleece, mahogany, brass, copper, and steel. This will be the artist’s first solo museum exhibition on the East Coast.