The Monumental Success of Simone Leigh
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 21, 2022
Two other shows in 2016, at the Tate Exchange in London and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, introduced her ceramic sculpture to a wider audience. Tilton had arranged for her to show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, for which she made six small busts of imaginary women, with multicolored ceramic rosettes for hair; all of them sold at the preview. “There was something about them that stopped people in their tracks,” Lauren Hudgins Shuman, A. C. Hudgins’s daughter, recalled. Shuman worked for Jack Tilton, and to her the show was clearly “a . . .
