Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera Décor Out of all the artists

Out of all the artists who emerged from the New York graffiti scene in the late '70s and '80s

Gaylord Phoenix is the award winning

Its impassioned interaction with the air creates an energized

iconic square Blackwing ferrule and black eraser

whether she is composing tableaux of plastic figurines and props

Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera Décor Out of all the artistsAccompanying a major survey of the work of the American artist Laurie Simmons, this generously illustrated book by Andrea Karnes features every important step of her ever evolving careerfrom small black and white photographs of miniature furniture to large scale, full color images featuring life sized Japanese dolls. Gender roles and identity, reality and its distortion, and the psychologically loaded myth of normal life are recurrent themes in Laurie