by Thordis Simonsen | Aug 12, 2018
Eirini Koroki, Greek, contemporary paint on re-purposed board, 15.5 x 19 in. greek art & handcraft metal, wood, fiber, clay The collection of handmade utilitarian objects from Greece includes ceramic jugs from Florina, textiles from Metsovo, finely carved spinning...
by Thordis Simonsen | Aug 12, 2018
Michael Mrowka, American, 1955-Dances in Two Worlds, wood, 1991, 45 x 21 in. June 2018–June 2021When the Museum of Authenticity Annex neared completion at the beginning of 2018, I began to search for the focus of an exhibit that could be installed there while the main...
by Thordis Simonsen | Aug 12, 2018
Thordis Niela Simonsen, American, 1944-#50, tempera, 1989, 35 x 23 in. thordis niela simonsenWorks by 2-dimensional artist Thordis Niela Simonsen include black/white photographs, tempera paintings, oil pastel paintings, and monotype prints. artist statementAll my...
by Thordis Simonsen | Jun 22, 2017
On a blistering hot day in August 1979, I drove 112 miles on secondary roads across three rural counties in what used to be known as Alabama’s “Black Belt” from my base in Monroeville to a town called Eutaw. There, I rendezvoused with Edna Thomas, a 74-year-old social...
by Thordis Simonsen | Apr 4, 2016
Minnesota Public Radio’s Writer’s Almanac reported, on 17 March 2016, that the National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D.C. on that date in 1941, four years after financier and collector Andrew W. Mellon formally bequeathed his entire collection, which he had...
