An Interview with Rose B. Simpson: "Road Less Traveled"

Art in America spoke with New Mexico artist Rose B. Simpson about her solo show “Road Less Traveled,” currently on view at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. She told us about how her artistic approach reflects her journey through life.
Over the past decade, Simpson has produced a veritable pantheon of clay beings that honor Pueblo traditions while anticipating an upcoming apocalypse.
Bearing such hallmark signifiers as slit eyes, absent limbs, and desert tones, these figures serve as characters in a quiet but profound epic that begins in the Southwest-in northern New Mexico, to be exact-but whose relevance extends into the beyond.
Read Lou Cornum’s profile of the artist from our November 2022 Southwest issue here: bit.ly/3yB3RdO
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Credits:
Featuring: Rose B. Simpson
Special thanks to Jack Shainman Gallery and Alma Communications
DP and Music by Jasdeep Kang
Produced and edited by Christopher Garcia Valle
Copy edited by Emily Watlington
Additional edits by Jake Amorelli