Jeffrey Simmons
Drawings and Paintings
July 15 - August 21, 2021
Greg Kucera Gallery is pleased to announce our ninth one-person exhibition, titled Drawings and Paintings, by Seattle painter Jeffrey Simmons. Always looking for new and unexplored processes for creating work, the artist turned to a series of paintings he had created for a previous body of work but had never actually shown. Finding the work’s surface texture its most intriguing aspect, he began making graphite rubbings from the face of those unfinished paintings. He then created new textural surfaces with the intent of making more rubbings. The resulting works on paper, because of their indirect process of creating images, are mysterious and compelling. Drawings resemble archeological digs or insects shaking dust from their wings.
“The indirectness of the process is a large part of the appeal. The linear elements and areas of tone in these drawings are not spontaneous, direct improvisations, but an altogether different form of notation, taking from the original matrix a limited set of formal qualities, documenting those qualities at the expense of others. I turned back to painting on canvas, then: using a limited color palette, and placing an emphasis on pattern and line, I approached related ideas about symmetry in a manner not spiritually unlike drawing. Likewise, the process I used to make the paintings was similarly indirect, while remaining true to the physical nature of fluid paint.”
Work in exhibition
Graphite on paper
26.25 x 19 inches
$2,300