An Interview with David Salle
William J. Simmons: Tell me about your shows in Dallas and New York City. What direction is your new work taking? David Salle: The show in Dallas brings together paintings…
Author William J. Simmons
William J. Simmons
William J. Simmons is a contributing editor of Big Red & Shiny, as well as a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His recent work can also be found in Artforum and ArtSlant.
By Women, For Women: An Interview with Filmmaker Lili White
A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Lili White is a fixture in the history of avant-garde filmmaking, and throughout her career she has maintained a dedication to…
On Second (Wave) Thought: Jeff Koons’s Feminisms
In a recent article in The Brooklyn Rail, Chloe Wyma argues against what she sees as the commodification of feminism through the institutionalization of key artworks like Kara Walker’s A…
A Boston Young Contemporary: Debra K. Jayne
Debra K. Jayne received an MFA in 2014 with a focus in painting and printmaking from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. She lives in…
Of Vulvas and Car Hoods: William J. Simmons Interviews Judy Chicago
At the press preview for Chicago in L.A.: Judy Chicago’s Early Work, 1963—74 at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by Catherine J. Morris, Sackler Family Curator, with Saisha Grayson, Assistant Curator,…
Cornered Pictures: Laurie Simmons’s “Kigurumi, Dollers, and How We See” at Salon 94 Bowery
A corner is the intersection of different lines or edges, a place wherein one is both trapped and radically free to chose among different directions. Kazimir Malevich hung his Suprematist…
Notes on Queer Formalism
In a recent conversation with Amy Sillman at the opening of Leidy Churchman’s provocative solo show, Lazy River, at the Boston University Art Gallery, I asked Sillman about the state…