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charles simonds` work

updated thu 31 jan 02

 

Marta Matray Gloviczki on wed 30 jan 02


dear jane and elca,
thanks so much for your information on charles simonds and his work. i`ve
found a website too-
(maybe helen could find some more for us?)

http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/moore/moore7-30-01.asp

marta



Aebersold, Jane F wrote:

>Elca and all,
>His name is Charles Simonds-- you can check his new work at this site
>http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/1aa/1aa190.htm
>best, jane
>
> Elca Branman
>> Subject: Re: 911
>>
>> There was a clay artist/scul;ptor who used to make enchanting small
>> buildings and put them in unexpected places in New York City.a million
>> tiny clacy bricks making up buildings.
>>
>> .I have forgotten his name but I will always remember the unexpected
>> pleasure of stumbling on one of these. From the second floor of the
>> Whitney Museum, looking out the window you could see a tiny one in the
>> corner of a window across 74th street, and it seems to me i saw one in
>> the staircase of the museum, at eye level on the opposite wall as you
>> descended..
>>
>> Anyhow, these were wonderful gifts to the public..There is nothing quite
>> as wonderful as the inexpected gift.
>>
>> Elca ( tempted to innocently put her snail mail address here and to lie
>> in wait for a deluge.....just joking, friends.)