Curator-led Tour | Diane Simpson

Join artist Diane Simpson and curator Makayla May for a viewing of Diane Simpson: “Good for Future” exhibition on the Art Institute's Bluhm Family Terrace.

Over the past 50 years, Chicago-based artist Diane Simpson has created work inspired by a diverse range of sources, including clothing, utilitarian objects, and architecture.

Working from highly detailed preparatory drawings, Simpson develops complex geometries that she transforms into three-dimensional objects, which call into question perspective and scale. Produced entirely by hand with painstaking care, Simpson’s sculptures are intimately domestic, spatially challenging, and terrifically strange.

For this installation on the Bluhm Family Terrace, Simpson debuts three newly commissioned sculptures derived from an unrealized set of drawings she made in the mid-1980s, which she labeled “Good for Future.” Merging past and present, Diane Simpson: “Good for Future” places her architectonic forms in dialogue with the Chicago skyline, marking the artist’s inaugural presentation of outdoor sculpture.