by Thordis Simonsen | Jul 22, 2025
JULY 2025–JUNE 2026 In 1988, when I was 44, I began tempera painting with a Jungian art therapist. Later, I turned to process painting—painting spontaneously without a preconceived plan, and without analysis or judgment of the results. Guided by intuition, not rules...
by Thordis Simonsen | Jul 22, 2025
JULY 2025–JUNE 2026 I have long anticipated installing an exhibit of block prints—a favorite medium of mine and others—for your viewing pleasure. Five different block types are represented in this intimate exhibit: linoleum, wood, cork, nail cut & reduction...
by Thordis Simonsen | Jun 25, 2024
JULY 2024—JUNE 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 2023....
by Thordis Simonsen | Jun 25, 2024
JULY 2024-JUNE 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 household...
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...
