Her
work has been featured in: Time, Newsweek, Goop, Seventeen, Fitness, Harper's Bazaar, Real Simple,
Women of Power, The National Enquirer, Family Circle, Ladies» Home Journal, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, InStyle,
Woman's World,
Ebony, Muscle & Fitness, Runner's World, Health, Parade, First for
Women, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publisher's Weekly, Hadassah Magazine, London Daily Mirror, Bella, SHE, Russian Vogue, SELF, Australian
Woman's Day, The Huffington Post, AOL
In the forty - part
work A-E-I-O-U and Sometimes Y, 2009, close - ups of
women's expressive faces recall Warhol's celebrity silk screens; some snap with bright color, while others border on abstraction in glittering
ebony.
Also, it was fantastic to see significant
works by black
women, including Micklene Thomas, Zanele Muholi, Deborah Roberts,
Ebony Patterson, Baltimore - based Amy Sherald and former Baltimorean Theresa Chromati in this context.
Her
work quotes from a 1980s article in
Ebony, «What They Say About the Men in Their Towns,» except she substitutes the word «
women» for «men,» shifting the gender politics into a queer dimension.
In the late 2000s, Simpson began to
work with found photographs of largely African - American
women sourced from auction sites of discarded Associated Press images, vintage Jet and
Ebony magazines, and archives of anonymous portraits.