Having garnered an international reputation as one of the leading artists to emerge from the New York Pictures Generation of the 1970s and 1980s, Simmons has thoughtfully and methodically moved through her various
photographic series, such as Early Black and White Interiors, 1976 — 78, in which pseudo-realities are created by staging miniature spaces with dollhouse furniture and other banal props; and
Walking & Lying Objects, 1987 — 91, a
series of black - and - white photographs of inanimate objects animated with human legs.