Blair Simmons' new solo exhibition, “Archive of Digital Portraits Cast in Concrete”
Blair Simmons’ New Solo Exhibition —“Archive of Digital Portraits Cast in Concrete”, opened on October 29th, 2022 and was on display until November 15th at TheBLANC gallery. The exhibition consisted of 11 concrete sculptural portraits of the cached web histories and digital identities of the artist’s friends and family.
Artwork on display at the exhibition
Artwork on display at the exhibition
Guests at the exhibition
Blair Simmons is a queer and anxious artist, researcher, storyteller, and technician working with multiple mediums. She is currently teaching at the Interactive Media Arts and Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. Her interest in creation resides in logic, language, structures, pain, patterns, maps, math, arrows, analysis, arches, queerness, bodies, failure, uselessness, organics, and opposites. Her research materializes as objects and performances which have been performed at the likes of Pioneer Works, La Mama’s CultureHub, Wordhack at Babycastles, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Press releases and reports of her are published in PARtake, The Scotsman, USA Today, The Guardian, etc.