NYAB Event - Gary Simmons Exhibition

Gary Simmons Exhibition

Metro Pictures

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Metro Pictures presents a survey of Gary Simmons’s career that brings together a range of works produced over the last 20 years. The exhibition includes Simmons’s first chalk drawings on blackboards done in the artist’s “erasure” technique along with sculptures, paintings, photographs and a 1992 wall drawing not seen since it's first presentation at the Drawing Center. From the row of shoeshine stands in Fuck Hollywood (1991) that are draped with towels embroidered with images of Elvis or the crows from Disney’s cartoon “Dumbo,” to his most recent multi-panel plywood sculpture mounted with drawings of 1930s posters for the historic boxing matches between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, Simmons has thoughtfully mined the signs and symbols of race and class in American culture.

[Image: Gary Simmons "Everforward. . ." (1993) Leather, metallic gold thread, satin, laces, nail, 35 x 15 x 6 in.]

Media

• Painting
• Drawing
• Photography
• Other
• Sculpture

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