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 translation into numerous languages. He has appeared as reader, guest artist, and lecturer in the U.S. (New York, Washington D.C., New Orleans and Lafayette, Louisiana, Wesleyan, Connecticut, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boulder, Colorado); Canada, (Toronto, and Montreal); U.K. (London and Oxford); Croatia (Dubrovnik and Hvar); and Bosnia Herzegovina (Sarajevo). His books include: Into the Mylar Chamber: Ira Cohen, Western Terrace, A Crescent by Any Other Name, Targets, And Tell Tulip the Summer, Roma Amor, Fragments from Nomad Days, Ascent of Sublime Love, and more. He is co-editor with Thom Burns of Invisible Heads: Surrealists in North America – An Untold Story. Theater works include: For Alejandra, Woman Bomb/Sade, and with Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris: Modette and Erotic Eulogy. |
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 Europe and South America and is included in over 100 private and public collections internationally. His work has been included in the major exhibitions and books on ontemporary Surrealism. In 2012 and 2013 a retrospective of his work from 1970-’75 toured museums in Spain and Portugal. In May, 2000 he had a solo exhibition in a castle in Italy which became the subject of a BRAVO TV television documentary, A New Arcadia, The Art of Gregg Simpson: www.greggsimpson.com/Videos.html Simpson works in the tradition of abstract surrealism. His paintings combine automatism with elements of landscape and the figure. They are improvised from simple charcoal outlines and then combined with the direct application of paint onto raw canvas. The meaning of the forms he creates changes with each viewer.www.greggsimpsonart.com |