by Thordis Simonsen | Jun 25, 2024
JULY 2024—FEBRUARY 2025 I began printmaking in 2010 with master printmaker, Mark Lunning, at the Art Students League of Denver after having worked previously with tempera paint and oil pastel. The exhibit includes original monotype prints from 2011, 2015, 2017, and...
by Thordis Simonsen | Jun 25, 2024
JULY 2024-FEBRUARY 2025 Twenty-three selenium-toned 8 x 10 matted and framed photographs taken in the 1970s comprise the exhibit, “You May Plow Here.” In June 1974, I sat down to lunch with Sara Brooks, who had worked in my parents’ Cleveland...
by Thordis Simonsen | Jun 26, 2023
JULY 2023-JUNE 2024 In 1982, I pulled up stakes from Colorado and plunked myself down in Elika, Lakonia, Greece. I intended to immerse myself in village life while documenting its transition in narratives and photographs. By the end of the second year, I had spent my...
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by Thordis Simonsen | May 21, 2022
JULY 2022–JUNE 2023 The exhibit P L A N [E] T includes a range of mid-20th-century landscape prints, primarily by Colorado and New Mexico artists; a selection of recent monotype prints depicting plants imagined by MoA’s founding director and curator, Thordis...
by Thordis Simonsen | Jul 7, 2021
JULY 2021–JUNE 2022 overview and backstory The exhibit DANCES IN TWO WORLDS features early- to mid-20th-century paintings by Native American artists and prints by Euro-American and American artists. Recent monotypes by MoA’s founding director and curator,...
by Thordis Simonsen | Oct 7, 2020
OCTOBER 2020–JUNE 2021overview and backstoryShortly after purchasing a small commercial property in Salida, Colorado in 2013, I bought an assemblage sculpture by Deborah Jang at the Art Students League Denver’s summer art market. The combination of unusual...
