SIFT, 2007
Watercolor on paper
14 x 13.5 inches
$1,600 framed
LARGER CHORUS II (Blue, Red), 2004
Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 inches
$1,400 framed
LARGER CHORUS II DETAIL, 2004
LARGER CHORUS IV (Green), 2004
Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 inches
$1,400 framed
In 2000, in response to a request for a works on paper exhibit, Simmons created a new body of work featuring reductive imagery realized using a carefully controlled layering technique. This departure allowed him to explore his continued interest in color in a different manner: rather than juxtaposing opaque paints, he created his color effects by building up many different layers of transparent pigment. The technique of layering transparent color has informed his subsequent work in all media. Simmons has continued to investigate the watercolor medium alongside his other current work.
LARGER CHORUS V (Blue), 2004
Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 inches
$1,400 framed
LARGER CHORUS VI (Pale Blue, Orange), 2004
Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 inches
$1,200
LARGER CHORUS VII (Red, Blue), 2004
Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 inches
$1,200
LARGER CHORUS VIII (Ultramarine), 2004
Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 inches
$1,200
LARGER CHORUS IX (Violet), 2004
Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 inches
$1,200
AURORA (multi-color ring), 2002
Watercolor on paper, 15.5 x 14 inches
$1,400 framed
photo courtesy of robert wade
"Simmons' paintings...are the precisionist path. He's working with finely controlled geometric figures, mostly concentric circles. He's still spinning them, discharging the loaded brush on the turning paper, but now with the accuracy and focus of a diamond cutter.
Simmons is working in watercolor, and his palette is as finely controlled as his hand. He calibrates each stripe, for width, saturation and for color. The narrow bands of color are so regular that they look dimensional, like layers of colored paper, sliced through at an angle. He moves from groups of bright stripes through areas of musty, smoggy stripes, from small variations of color to extreme difference in color and in value. It's easy to read concentric circles as targets.
The unsettling outcome of all this fine muscle control and fine mental control is that many of Simmons' works read as the impossibly tidy leftovers of some violent action, as if the paper had been drilled through by a bullet. They're small, tense and stunning."
- Victoria Josslin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 2000
AMANITA (3 red circles), 2000
Watercolor on paper 11.5 x 11.25 inches
$1,200 framed
DARK CLUSTER (circle mandala), 2000
Watercolor on paper, 11.25 x 11.25 inches
$1,300 framed
MARIGOLD (yellow ring), 2000
Watercolor on paper, 11.5 x 11.25 inches
$1,200 framed
NEW HARMONY (chevron), 2000
Watercolor on paper, 11.5 x 11 inches $1,200 framed
OPTIMISTIC (2 rings blue/red), 2000
Watercolor on paper, 11 x 9 inches
$1,200 framed
SIGNAL (ring), 2000
Watercolor on paper, 11.25 x 11.25 inches
$1,200 framed
SWARD (stripes), 2000
Watercolor on paper, 11.5 x 11.5 inches
$1,050
THOROUGHFARE, 2000
Watercolor on paper, 11.5 x 11.5 inches
$1,050
UNTITLED MULTI (3 columns rings), 2000
Watercolor on paper, 10 x 8.5 inches
$1,300 framed
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