Charles Simonds - Lectures

Lectures - Work Slides

Birth, 1970 22 Color photographs, 16”x102” and 16mm color film with Rudy Burckhardt, 3 min. s

Birth, 1970 22 Color photographs, 16”x102” and 16mm color film with Rudy Burckhardt, 3 min.

Birth, 1970 22 Color photographs, 16”x102” and 16mm color film with Rudy Burckhardt, 3 min.

Birth, 1970 22 Color photographs, 16”x102” and 16mm color film with Rudy Burckhardt, 3 min.

Birth, 1970 22 Color photographs, 16”x102” and 16mm color film with Rudy Burckhardt, 3 min.

Birth, 1970 22 Color photographs, 16”x102” and 16mm color film with Rudy Burckhardt, 3 min.

Birth, 1970 22 Color photographs, 16”x102” and 16mm color film with Rudy Burckhardt, 3 min.

Birth, 1970 22 Color photographs, 16”x102” and 16mm color film with Rudy Burckhardt, 3 min.

Landscape<->Body<->Dwelling, 1973, photograph and 16mm color film with Rudy Burckhardt, 7 min.

Ritual Place, Clay, sand, and wood 13 x 29 x 29 cm Collection of Holly Solomon 1970

Dwelling, Gutter, Greene Street, New York, 1970 Clay, sand, and wood

Dwelling, East 2nd Street, New York, 1972 Clay, sand and wood

Dwelling East Houston with passersby, New York, 1972 Clay, sand and wood

Dwelling Rue des Cascades, Paris, 1975 Clay, sand and wood

Dwelling 112 Greene Street, New York, 1971 Clay, sand and wood

Dwelling Whitney Museum, New York 1977 Clay, sand and wood

Dwelling Dublin, Ireland, 1980 Clay, sand and wood

Dwelling Simonds with Josefa, Paris, 1975

Dwelling PS1, New York, 1975 Clay, sand and wood

Simonds, Niagra Gorge, Excavated Railroad Tunnel Remains ArtPark, Lewiston, New York 1974

19th Century Railroad Tunnel, Niagra Gorge

Excavated and Inhabited Railroad Tunnel Remains Niagra Gorge, ArtPark, Lewiston, NY 1974

Simonds, Ritual Cairns Niagra Gorge, ArtPark, Lewiston, NY 1974

Simonds, Landscape<->Body<->Dwelling Niagra Gorge, ArtPark, Lewsiton, NY 1974

Simonds, Dwelling Niagra Gorge, ArtPark, Lewiston, NY 1974

Simonds, Dwelling Shanghai, China 1980

Drawing made by Passerby of Simonds Constructing Dwelling (given to him as gift)
Shanghai, China 1980

Dwelling Antwerp, Belgium 1979 Clay, sand and wood Collection of Mark and Jacqueline LeJeune

Dwelling Installation Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1981 Clay, sand and wood Bricks ½” long

Dwelling Crocker Art Museum, California 1982 Clay, sand and wood Bricks ½” long 28” x 51” x 22” Gift of Foster Goldstrum

Dwelling Galerie Baudoin Le Bon 1991 Clay, sand and wood Bricks ½” long

Linear People Pen and ink drawing, 1975 8 ¾” x 13”

People Who Live in a Circle 1972
Museum of Modern Art, NY Clay, sand and wood 8 3/8 x 26 1/4 x 26 1/8"

People Who Live in a Spiral 1974
The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin Ohio Clay, sand and wood 30” diameter

Picaresque Landscape Collection of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. 1976
18.5’ x 15.25’ x 2.67’ Clay, sand, wood and plaster

Picaresque Landscape Collection of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. 1976 18.5’ x 15.25’ x 2.67’ Clay, sand, wood and plaster

Age, Solomon Guggenheim Collection, New York 1983 Clay, sand, wood and plaster 27.33’ x 26.25’ x 10.17’

Ritual Place 1970, 21.5” x 19.5” x 10”
Collection John Czerkowicz, New York Clay, sand, wood and seeds

The Growth House Ink on paper, 25.5” x 29.5” 1975 Collection of the artist

The Growth House Installation ArtPark 1975 Seeds, earth, burlap

Breezy Point Highrises Breezy Point, New York Photograph 1975

Stanley Tankel Memorial Hanging Gardens Breezy Point, New York Photomontage, 1976

Simonds and Collaborators, Stanley Tankel Memorial Hanging Gardens Breezy Point, New York 1977

Simonds, Breezy Point Highrises Breezy Point, New York Photograph 1978

Architekturmuseum, Basel Switzerland Photograph 1985

Architekturmuseum, Basel Switzerland, Interior Photograph 1985

The Three Trees Architekturmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, 1985

The Three Trees, Interior Architekturmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, 1985

Ground Bud Clay, sand, and wood 6 x 30 x 30 in Collection of the artist 1981

Stone Sprout Clay, sand, and wood 12 x 30 x 30 in Collection of the artist 1981

Brick Blossom Clay, sand, and wood 13 x 30 x 30 in Collection of Desmoines Museum, Iowa

Wilted Towers Clay, sand, and wood 12 x 24 x 24 in Private collection, New York 1984

Pod II Clay, sand, and wood 11.5 x 24 x 24 in Destroyed 1983

Rock Flower Clay, sand, and wood 28 x 61 x 61 cm
Collection of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1986

Leaves Clay, sand, and wood 6 x 24 x 24 in Collection of Galerie Lelong, Paris 1986

Red Flow Clay, sand, wood 11 x 30 x 30",
Collection of Frances Beatty Adler and Allen Adler, New York 1984

Labyrinth Clay, sand and wood 20 x 70 x 27 cm Collection of Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1972

Pyramid Clay, sand, and wood 38 x 51.7 x 64 cm 1972

Ritual Furnace 1973 Clay, sand and wood 28” diameter Collection of Albright Knox Art Gallery

Abandoned Observatory Clay, sand, and wood 25 x78.5 x 76 cm
Musée national d’Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1975

Justice Clay, sand, and wood 24 x 75.8 x 76" 1981

Floating Cities and other Architectures, Exhibition Catalogue Cover, 1978
West Falischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany

Floating Cities Model Configuration 1978, dims. variable (Units 3” square) Wood

News Story, Background for Floating Cities 1978

Floating Cities Model Configuration 1978, dims. variable (Units 3” square) Wood

Floating Cities Montage Photomontage, 11” x 14” 1978

Smear Clay, sand, and wood 3 x 22.5 x 22.5 in Collection of IVAM, Valencia, Spain 1984

Growing Towers Smear 2001 Clay, plaster, wood and sand 18” x 9” x 41” Collection of IVAM, Valencia, Spain

Smear 1984 Clay, plaster, wood and sand
Private Collection, Zurich, Switzerland 16” x 7” x 39”

Dwelling (side 1) 1985 Clay, Plaster, Wood and sand 29 1/2” x 31 1/2” x 15 ¾”
Collection Richard Ekstract

Dwelling (side 2) 1985 Clay, Plaster, Wood and sand 29 1/2” x 31 1/2” x 15 ¾”
Collection Richard Ekstract

Flying Smear Clay, plaster, and wood 30 x 27 x 18 in
Private Collection 1983

Wall Dwelling 1999 Clay, plaster, wood, metal and sand 30 x 34 x 42”
Collection Henry S. McNeil Jr. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Head 1991 Clay and plaster 15 x 11 x 8”

Untitled Clay, plaster and sand 1997 19 x 10 x 69”
Collection IVAM

Untitled Clay, plaster and sand 1993
A 20 x 20 x 54”; B 20 x 20 x 51”; C 20 x 20 x 49”;
Collection IVAM

Man and Fish 1993 Clay, plaster 32 x 23 ¾ x 10”

Stugg 1991 Clay and plaster 100 x 15 x 9”

Singing Monkey 1991 Clay and cement 32 x 32 x 35 ½”

Head 1993 Clay and plaster 35 ½ x 30 x 27 ¾”
Collection Marc and Ilene Steglitz

Dwelling 2000 Clay, plaster, wood and sand 16 ½ x 26 ¾ x 24”
Private Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Torn 2001 Clay, Plaster, polyurethane 26 x 27 x 17”

Dwelling 2004 Clay, plaster 9 x 13 x 18” Private collection, Spain

Mental Earth Growths and Smears (Installation) Knoedler Gallery, New York 2011

Jeu de Paume Paris, France

Rue de la Sainte, Saint Anne Paris, France

Stairs, Patient 1995 Centre d’etude de l’expression, Clinique des maladies mentales et de l’encephale,
Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne Paris, France

Temple, Patient 1995 Centre d’etude de l’expression, Clinique des maladies mentales et de l’encephale,
Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne Paris, France

Mouths, Patient 1995 Centre d’etude de l’expression, Clinique des maladies mentales et de l’encephale,
Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne Paris, France

Mountain, Communal Sculpture 1995 Centre d’etude de l’expression, Clinique des maladies mentales et de l’encephale,
Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne Paris, France

Manufacture Nationale de Ceramique, Sevres

Tumbleweed 1993 Porcelain 9 x 16 x 17” Manufacture Nationale de Ceramique, Sevres

Crucible 1993 Porcelain Diameter 22” Manufacture Nationale de Ceramique, Sevres

Plates 1995- Porcelain ~ diameter 14” Manufacture Nationale de Ceramique, Sevres

Ice House/Instant House 1980
Fabric, metal, ice Iowa City, Iowa 40’ in diameter