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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth announces FOCUS. Gary Simmons

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents FOCUS. Gary Simmons an exhibition on view Nov 09, 2012 – Jan 06, 2013.

The Modern’s inaugural Director’s Council Focus exhibition for the 2012–2013 season features the work of New York–based artist Gary Simmons.

Simmons is known for his “erasure” technique, which he began using in the early 1990s. Initially creating semi-erased works with chalk on blackboards, the artist’s process has since evolved to include works on paper, paint on canvas, and murals that mimic smudged chalk. The resulting ghostly images often refer to intersections of pop culture, race, and class. The notion of history’s subjective bent is also a strong theme within Simmons’s work. The simple yet loaded nature of chalk lends well to his artistic concerns—especially in its suggestion of basic communication, the human hand, education systems, and of easily erasable or altered information.

Simmons’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Bohen Foundation, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Saint Louis Art Museum; and the Kunsthaus Zürich. Simmons has recently completed commissions for the New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

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