Are we really doing this again?
Work in progress II, January 4, 2019.
Work in progress, January 4, 2019.
Work in progress, January 3, 2019.
Work in progress, December 19, 2018.
Ardorata 1995. Oil on aluminum, mounted on wood; 36 x 38 inches.
One more painting from 23 years ago. I stopped making this work in part because the stenciled flowers were tedious to cut. I was working on what would have been a motorized object with rotating daisy parts when I got the idea to use a turntable to make concentric circle paintings.
An artifact from 1995. I made these stickers to promote my first show in a commercial gallery, two years after moving to the Northwest. Having grown up in the Midwest, where the salt used to deice roads causes cars to rust quickly, I was surprised to see so many older cars still driving around Seattle. I often saw these daisy stickers on older Volkswagens, so I made a body of paintings composed of layered, stenciled flowers. I thought it was a nice way to explore complex color relationships.
Jeffrey Simmons. Corolla 1995. Oil and alkyd on copper, 12 x 12 inches. Private collection. This painting is from the first show I ever had in a commercial gallery, which opened in October, 1995, at Linda Cannon Gallery in Seattle.
Salvaged studio detritus: oil on newsprint, c. 1996.
Work in progress, December 11, 2018.