by Thordis Simonsen | Aug 12, 2018
Michael Mrowka, American, 1955-Dances in Two Worlds, wood, 1991, 45 x 21 in. June 2018–June 2021 When the Museum of Authenticity Gatehouse neared completion at the beginning of 2018, I began to search for the focus of an exhibit that could be installed there while the...
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...
by Thordis Simonsen | Aug 22, 2015
As you might know, I am renovating and adding onto a small “accessory building” on the property I purchased almost two-and-a-half years ago in downtown Salida. The first stage of the building project felt like riding in a rattletrap around potholes on an unpaved road...
