Representative work by Gary Simmons
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Artist

Gary Simmons

b. 1964, New York, USA · Based in Los Angeles, California, USA

  • MFA, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts, 1990)
  • BFA, School of Visual Arts (1988)
  • Erasure Drawings
  • Chalk and Slate Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Murals

Gary Simmons is a prominent American conceptual artist renowned for his signature erasure technique, where chalk drawings on blackboards are physically wiped with bare hands to leave ghostly, blurred smudges. His works confront racist stereotypes, Hollywood cinema, architecture, and collective racial amnesia.

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