Gary Simmos: Public Enemy

Edited with text by René Morales and Jadine Collingwood.Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Franklin Sirmans. Interviews with Thelma Golden, Arthur Jafa, Gary Simmons. Text by Nick Mirzoeff, Seph Rodney, Franklin Sirmans, Jack Schneider. Long overdue, this first comprehensive survey spans three decades of Simmons’ richly layered, socially engaged art Covering 30 years of sculptures, paintings, works on paper, large-scale wall drawings, installations and site-specific works, this book presents the art of Gary Simmons, one of the most respected artists of his generation. Since the late 1980s, Simmons has played a key role in situating questions of race, class and gender identity within art discourse. He is notable for combining pop-cultural imagery with conceptual artistic strategies to expose and analyze histories of racism inscribed in US visual culture. Over the course of his career, Simmons has revealed traces of these histories in the fields of sports, cinema, literature, music, and a