A Solo Exhibition
September 6 – November 22, 2024
Exhibition Hours: Monday – Thursday & Saturday 10 AM – 5 PM
Friday 10 AM – 1 PM
Sunday Closed
(L) Obverse Similarity 2024 Acrylic latex and spray paint on wood panel 48 x 33 inches
(R) Quantum Foam 2024 Acrylic latex and spray paint on wood panel 48 x 33 inches
With a background as a professional photographer, Steve Simpson has thrived in the commercial photography scene for over three decades. While his livelihood revolves around capturing moments through a lens, his true artistic outlet lies in the realm of painting. Serving as a liberating escape from the structured world of photography, his abstract artworks become a canvas for the unrestrained expression of creativity using paint, transcending the confines of cameras and software. The paintings showcased here represent the culmination of Steve’s artistic evolution, reflecting the essence of his unique and multifaceted creative exploration.
“Simpson’s approach into the heart of the creative process gives his particular brand of abstraction a sense of the biomorphic molecular. He seems to ask, “If one can peer deep enough into the biological matter of our being, we may find answers to the riddle of life itself.” It is here that we encounter the Simpson art paradox, the microscope is alternately a telescope. The view within expands outward to the view without, making his abstracted forms elusive to firm association – as much psychologically derived as materially.”
-Steve Rockwell
Publisher and Editor of dArt International magazine
“Simpson peers into the tiny universes contained in living materials, seeing in them worlds worth depicting. He realizes immanent structures that end up serving eternal truths…Simpson paints the myriad levels down to an Nth degree of human comprehension. His paintings depict the samples on hand; the degrees of scrutiny; the details of structural integrity; the channel flow between parts of the whole; the exit point where they may be rationally linked one to the other; the changes that may accelerate materials into modes of crisis; and the elementary particles undergoing translation by the simple introduction of light, heat, or agitation.”
“Simpson’s paintings represent an embodied study of how everything in the universe from the distant to the immediate signals an element of rudimentary daily life altering its material existence–from a crack in the ground to a pot of boiling water to sunlight filtering through and heating a muddy puddle in the street– enters not only into a symbolic order with meaning for each of us, but also, an in some final consequence, an aesthetic repercussion that also alters our world rationally and emotionally. Simpson leads an inspired exploration through the very elementary aspects of our lives, creating a palimpsest of the unseen.”
-David Gibson
Tectonic Suppression 2024 Acrylic latex and spray paint on wood panel 48 x 33 inches
Exhibition organized through Katharine T. Carter and Associates
Marketing materials provided by Affiliated Artists Initiatives
Gallery admission is FREE thanks to the support of the City of Gadsden, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Daniel Foundation of Alabama, and Exchange Bank.
For Information Contact:
Hardin Center for Cultural Arts
info@culturalarts.org
(256) 543-2787
Related Posts