Photography and Reality: Walking through the Simmons exhibition with artist Leigh Merrill

Photography and Reality: Walking through the Simmons exhibition with artist Leigh Merrill

Join Leigh Merrill for a gallery discussion of the work of Laurie Simmons. Merrill is a photographer based in Dallas, Texas, where she is Assistant Professor of Art at A&M University-Commerce. Her photographs incorporate fantasy and reality, calling into question ideas of beauty, class and romanticism in our urban environments.

Image: Laurie Simmons, Pushing Lipstick (Spotlight), 1979. Cibachrome print, 5 ¾ x 8 ¾ inches. Courtesy of the Artist