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Simone Leigh (Brooklyn, NY) is widely known for navigating the intersections of traditional craft mediums and contemporary art practices. Her sculptures, videos, installations, and performances are situated in anarea of artistic inquiry that explores the biological, political, and social experiences of women. Leigh's research process and artistic production often stand as a veneration of the ingenuity and fortitude of the anonymous female artist and worker. Crop Rotation presents a series of works informed by the roles women have historically played as both laborer and caretaker.

Leigh's practice frequently focuses on the historical depiction of the black female body in visual culture. In Crop Rotation she examines the way certain objects, like the hoop skirt or hand tied tobacco from a Kentucky farmer, resonate multiple narratives relating to the economic, racial, and sexual histories of African American women from the South. Sampling from different cultural traditions and materials, her artworks often employ crafting techniques borrowed from methods of adornment, jewelry, and pottery making in order to critically address contemporary issues relating to gender, race, and cultural identity.

Crop Rotation communicates a range of possibilities for self颅reflection from the viewpoints of cultural heritage, personal and collective history, science, anthropology, and the juxtaposition of found and hand颅made objects. By rotating new sculptures with projects from previous exhibitions, Leigh exposes the new meanings that objects and ideas can convey in new spaces, meanings that might otherwise lay fallow.