About the Artist and Author


Gregg Simpson
Photo by Carol M. Cram

Born in Ottawa in 1947, Bowen Island artist, Gregg Simpson, has been active in visual art, music, video and multi-media
performances since the mid-1960s. He was instrumental in the early developments in Vancouver’s 1960s “golden age” of
multi-media, such as the Sound Gallery and Intermedia.
 
His work has been exhibited and published in museums and galleries in Canada, the U.S., Italy, France, England, Austria,
Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Chile Australia and Malaysia and is included in over 100 private and public collections
internationally.
 
The west coast rainforest where he grew up and lives today is always an underlying factor in Simpson’s work, alternating with
influences derived from European art, especially surrealism and lyric abstraction.
 
The artist’s work has evolved from the collages and Pop-influenced paintings of the 1960s, through the neo-Surrealism of the
1970’s to an organic abstraction in the 1980’s and works based in both landscape and the figure during the last thirty years.
 
In May 2000, the artist exhibited at the Fortezza di Montalcino, a 14th Century castle in Tuscany, the subject of a BRAVO TV
documentary in 2003, A New Arcadia, The Art of Gregg Simpson, which is now on YouTube. Simpson's work has recently been
included in the permanent collections of museums in Spain, Portugal and Chile. From 2015 to2018 he exhibited in Berlin,
Venice, Milan, Rome and Paris in solo and group shows. In April, 2018 he held a solo exhibition of ink drawings in New York.

Allan Graubard
Photo by Ira Landgarten

Allan Graubard’s poems, fiction, theater, literary and theater criticism are published or performed in the U.S., Canada,
Brazil, Chile, U.K., and the E.U., with 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); Canada, (Toronto, and Montreal); U.K. (London and Oxford); Croatia (Dubrovnik and Hvar); and Bosnia Herzegovina
(Sarajevo).
 
His books include: 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.

Of his theater works, there are:  For Alejandra, Woman Bomb/Sade, and with Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris: Modette and Erotic
Eulogy.