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...
![P L A N [E] T](https://museumofauthenticity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/morris-tree_infiniteEd-copy-1080x675.jpg)
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...
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...
