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Artist
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Marking
time is universal.
It is what we
all do with
our lives – some more
gracefully than others – but
none leaving
an unmarked
path.
I
am a mark maker, and have always seen
myself as such. A preoccupation with
marking and a profound respect for
time initially inspired me. This work is defined by its
quietude, compulsion, and repetitive
variation. |
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Biography Click
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DONI SILVER SIMONS is a painter, installation, and performance artist. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Silver Simons received a Bachelor of Studio Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Drawing from Wayne State University, Detroit, in 1974. She was in the forefront of that city's vibrant art scene with her powerful solo and group work. In the late 1970s, Silver Simons relocated to Los Angeles and participated in a number of seminal solo and group projects including Caesura III (performance, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, 1978);
1st Annual Downtown Artists Show, (exhibition, LACE, Los Angeles,
1978); 2nd Annual Downtown Artists Exhibition/Six Downtown Sculptors, (exhibition, LACE, Los Angeles, 1979); Caesura (a Study), (exhibition, University of California, Irvine, 1979); Doni Silver/Episodes (exhibition, LACE, Los Angeles, 1980); and Contemporaries: 17 Artists (exhibition, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, 1980). Silver Simons' recent solo exhibitions include Center Justified; …lines…; Omer 5769;
August (Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, 2007, 2009, 2009, and
2010 respectively); Marked (exhibition and performance, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, 2009), and the upcoming exhibition at the Slutzky Art Gallery, Irvine, in 2011. Select group shows include Global Soul, (Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 2009); FRESH (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2009); It's a Numbers Game: Doni Silver Simons in the Projects Room (The Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, 2010);
INCOGNITO (Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, 2010); Memory and Transformation,
(Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA),
and Send Nothing to the Tate Modern; A Project by David Horvitz, (Tate Modern, London, England).
A recipient of numerous grants and commissions, Silver Simons' work
is in many private collections and in the public collections of the
Detroit Institute of Arts; the National Endowment of the Arts,
Washington D.C.; and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann
Arbor. Silver Simons lives and works in Los Angeles. |
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| Education |
| MFA – Wayne
State
University,
MI |
| BA
- University
of Pittsburgh,
PA |
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| Solo Exhibitions and Performances |
| 2011 |
Slutzy Art Gallery, Irvine, CA |
| 2010 |
August: Doni Silver Simons, New Paintings and Performance, Sherry Frumkin Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA |
| 2009 |
…lines…, Sherry
Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA |
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Marked,
featuring
Omer 5769:
An Installation
and Performance,
Hebrew
Union
College,
Los Angeles,
CA |
| 2007 |
Center Justified,
Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA |
| 1996 |
Expressions of Faith, Nebraska Studio, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1989 |
Parallels, an installation, Studio 339, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1980 |
Doni Silver/Episodes, LACE, Los Angeles, CA |
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Caesura III, performance, Mount
St. Mary's College, Los Angeles,
CA |
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Caesura II, a ceremony, Loft
of George Vihos, New York, NY |
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Paper
Works,
Feigenson-Rosenstein
Gallery,
Detroit,
MI |
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West work 10, Works in Public
Places Project, Pacific Design
Center, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1977 |
Centric East, Lowell Nesbitt
Studio, New York, NY |
| 1976 |
Salted Harmonics, Gallery 720,
Lynchburg, VA |
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A Last Supper for the Gertrude
Kasle Gallery, a Ceremony, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI |
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Whisper Pitch, studio performance,
Detriot, MI |
| 1975 |
Zero Plus, performance, Wayne
State University, Detroit, MI |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances |
| 2010 |
Memory and Transformation, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA |
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Send Nothing to the Tate Modern: A Project by David Horvitz, Tate Modern, London, England |
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INCOGNITO,
Santa
Monica
Museum
of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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Doni Silver Simons in the Projects Room: It’s
a Numbers
Game,
The Loft
at Liz’s,
Los Angeles,
CA |
| 2009 |
FRESH, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Global Soul, Jewish World Watch,
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles,
CA |
| 2008 |
Tradition and Transformation,
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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Drawing on Experience, Woman
Made Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2006 |
Marking Time, Hangar Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA |
| 1981 |
With
More Than
One Sense,
Invitational,
LACMA
Art Rental
Gallery,
Los Angeles,
CA |
| 1980 |
Contemporaries: 17 Artists, Security
Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA,
catalog |
| 1979 |
2nd Annual Downtown Artists Exhibition/Six Downtown Sculptors, LACE, Los Angeles, CA |
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Caesura (a Study), University
of California, Irvine, |
| 1978 |
1st Annual Downtown Artists Show, LACE, Los Angeles, CA |
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Caesura I, (performance), Detroit
Institute of Arts, New Video and
Performance, Detroit, MI |
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Paper Works, Feigenson-Rosenstein
Gallery, Detroit, MI |
| 1977 |
Women’s Show, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Sculpture '77, Macomb Community
College, Detroit, MI |
| 1976 |
Doni Silver/Doug Semivan, Willis
Gallery, Detroit, MI |
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Steve Faust/John Piet/ Doni Silver,
Detroit Artists Market, Detroit,
MI |
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Forsythe Detroit, Forsythe Building,
Detroit, MI |
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Women’s Show, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Faculty Show, Wayne State University,
Detroit, MI |
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Drawings USA, Minneapolis Museum
of Art, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Selected References |
| Shana Nys Dambrot, Waiting for God? Oh! Urban
Scrawl-006, August 2010 |
| What’s On: Doni Silver Simons, The Argonaut,
August 5, 2010 |
| Shana Nys Dambrot, Doni Silver Simons: August,
flavorpill, August 6, 2010 |
| Jacki
Apple,
Doni Silver
Simons,
Fabrik
Magazine,
October
26, 2009 |
A.
Moret,
Doni Silver
Simons: “…lines…” at
Sherry
Frumkin
Gallery,
Art Ltd.,
July/August,
2009 |
| A.
Moret,
To Leave
a Mark,
Citizen
LA, May
2009 |
Sandra
Vista,
Doni Silver
Simons@Sherry
Frumkin
Gallery,
Whitehot
Magazine,
March
2009 |
| Bill
Lasarow,
Doni Silver
Simons,
ArtScene,
March
2009 |
| Smithsonian Archives
of American Art, Los Angeles Institute
of Contemporary Art, Michael Yates,
May 11, 2007 |
| Performance Anthology:
Source Book for a Decade of California
P erformance Art, Contemporary
Arts Press. San Francisco, 1989,
p.391,20425-427 |
| Suzanne Muchnic,
Contemporaries: Artists to Bank
On, Los Angeles Times, February,
1980 |
| Linda Burnham, Performance
in Southern California, High Performance,
1979 |
| Ruth Askey, Application
of Symbolism, Artweek, March, 1979 |
| Joan Hugo, Six Downtown
Sculptors, Artweek, March, 1979 |
| Suzanne Muchnic,
New York Painters, L.A. Sculptors,
Los Angeles Times, 1979 |
| New Video and Performance
Art in Detroit: Works in Progress
V, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1979,
Catalog |
| Joy Hakenson-Colby,
Silvers New Work Opens a Drawer
of Life, Detroit News, May, 1978 |
| Joy Hakenson-Colby,
Colby on Art: Subtle Sensations,
Detroit News, 1976 |
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| Grants |
Works in Public Places Project, Los
Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art and the City of Los
Angeles, 1978 |
| Michigan Workshop of Fine Prints,
funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Michigan
Council of Arts - Invited Artist,1976 |
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| Public Collections |
| Detroit Institute of Arts |
| University of Michigan Art Museum |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
| National Endowment of the Arts |
| Michigan Council of the Arts, Detroit |
| Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan |
| Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan |
| Allegheny County Community College, Pittsburgh |
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