Simon Evans

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"The power of theory is used against artists as much as for them."

Ceal Floyer at 303 Gallery (New York):

(a projected image of a nail)

James Turrell at the de Young Museum (San Francisco):

Rimbaud:

Tales from Ovid:

Pygmalion saw the wickedness of particular women
Transform, as by some occult connection,
Every woman's uterus to a spider.
Her face, voice, gestures, hair became its web.
Her perfume was a floating horror. Her glance
Left a spider-bite. He couldn't control it.

So he lived
In the solitary confinement
Of a phobia,
shunning living women, wifeless.

Yet he still dreamed of woman.

Baudelaire:

The Temple of the Moon from the Temple of the Sun, Teotihuacan:

Deities from the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan:

Artemisia Gentileschi:

"Cleopatra", 1621

Art Historian Mary Garrard: "Cleopatra's love for Antony, secular and impure, is destined for the grave, like all vain human endeavor, yet she could be admitted to the realm of "good women" because, as a pagan without access to Christian redemption, she might serve as a spectacle of courage, self-awareness, and self-definition..."

The Serpent Mound:

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

"Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) 1987-1990

(Two synchronous battery-powered wall clocks placed side-by-side, marking the passage of time until one or the other falls out of sync, slows and stops.)

"Without regular events of beauty, we live estranged from all existence, including our own."

--Peter Schjeldahl

For My Sister-in-Law Corinne Sewell, who was very loved and very kind:

Peter Schjeldahl:

"Beauty makes a case for the sacredness of something--winning the case suddenly and irrationally."




(A Oaxacan Bride, June 2006)

Deceased Children (19th Century) from the permanent collection of the Museo National de Arte (Mexico City):

Ceramics from the Permanent Collection of the Museo National de Antropologia (Mexico City):

Tarascan:

Mayan:

Jim Gaylord at Grimm/Rosenfeld (New York):

A Few Monuments of the Mighty Cuyahoga River:

Essroc Italcementi Group:

Norfolk and Western Rail Bridge:

River Residence:

Mittal Steel Corporation:

Mittal Steel:

Mittal Steel:

The Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant, Oak Harbor, Ohio:

Dominion East Ohio Natural Gas Corporation:

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
--Emerson