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Hungry? Need some food for thought? Come explore EAT ME, DRINK ME, a fun, thought provoking, immersive installation in studio 308 at San Francisco’s 1890 Bryant Street Studios. EAT ME, DRINK ME (2025). This installation explores the sensorial and conflicting experience of today’s food consumption and waste, at once seduction and repulsion. The title of…

I am struck by the inventiveness, variety, and irreverence of the art that covers the walls of many cities. The combination of creativity and technical talent is ever evolving, and I am impressed by the spontaneity with which these city dwellers express being part of a city. Limited edition prints, wall hangings, pillow covers, silk…

PERSPECTIVES/SF: THE ARTISTS OF 1890 BRYANT STREET STUDIOS, just opened at the Sausalito Center for the Arts. The exhibition continues through October 5, 2025 From the Mission to Marin – the Sausalito Center For The Arts is thrilled to present an extraordinary exhibition featuring the diverse and dynamic work of artists from 1890 Bryant Street…

On a hot summer weekend in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I went “fishing” for street garbage with my camera. I recomposed these images – my own form of recycling – as an attempt to reveal the underlying beauty of rejected objects, the virtuosity of a cascade of shiny materials and colors. Limited edition prints, wall hangings,…

2025 SF Open Studios Exhibition ArtLaunch, presented by ArtSpan, opens Friday, Sep 19: 6-9 pm PDT at SOMArts, 934 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA. The exhibition closes Sunday, October 12, 2025Celebrate the abundant creativity of the SF Bay Area. The SF Open Studios Exhibition features the work of 300+ participating SF Open Studios artists, providing…

Stay cool… it’s time to go to the beach! The large Bassin d’Arcachon near Bordeaux empties out completely at low tide. I took advantage of this phenomenon to wander around the marooned vessels, photographing their varied palette of bright colors available during this brief window of time.Limited edition prints, wall hangings, pillow covers, silk scarves,…

Impossibly soft, light yet warm, 100% Australian merino wool is the finest I have ever touched. Each scarf is printed on both sides and the particular weave renders color saturation exquisitely – a perfect match for printing designs from my STEAM series, as well as other experiments in photo-painting. These luxurious scarves are now available for…

After a long, dark, cold winter, spring is finally in the air in Paris and New York. I have an urge to surround myself with blue skies and fluffy white clouds. Wearing this design inspires a sign of hope and promise.Limited edition prints, wall hangings, pillow covers, silk scarves, as well as silk and cotton…

Two artists – one from Korea and one from Italy – cross paths in Paris. As neighbors they have seen and admired each other’s work. They share a strong aesthetic affinity and an adventurous spirit. Simo’s wardrobe contains many of Eunwha’s designs; and Eunwha is intrigued by Simo’s photographic compositions on fabric. For this ongoing…

WE’RE NOT GOING BACK!  (Kamala Harris, 2024) On July 21st, 2024 a young intern and I were working in my studio when we heard that Biden had ended his re-election bid and endorsed vice president Kamala Harris to run for the Presidency. A feeling of irrepressible joy and hope swept over us both, replacing the…

Videographer Mushi Wooseong James asks that universal question: Why do you make art? Simo Neri answers with this 2023 update. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qj7mBttRf8 For many it is fascinating to look at art, or to observe the process of making art. But does one ever wonder what motivates an individual to express their creativity in a unique and…

OUR SHELTERING SKY, is an installation on view at The Drawing Room Annex, SF as part of the invitational show SKY, beginning February 18, 2023. Always fascinated by the changing nature of the skies above, I have used sequential photography of skies from different parts of the world in an effort to capture this ephemeral…

… at the Drawing Room Annex SF EAT ME, DRINK ME, is an installation on view at The Drawing Room Annex, SF as part of the invitational show ADAPTATIONS: LAND, beginning October 1, 2022. This installation explores the sensorial and conflicting experience of today’s food consumption and waste, at once seductive and repulsive. Sequential, rhythmic…

Stage set? Private nook? Zoom background?It’s a work of Art! The Dream Screen is a flexible, modular portal to the viewer’s imagination. It is at once a stage, a behind-the-scenes, a work of art. At the same time two- and three-dimensional, the Dream Screen freely changes shape and transforms space. It is both art and…

After a full year of my own “sheltering in place”… my attention turned to the houseless-ness that seems prevalent in many urban environments. The incongruity of the mandate to shelter in place coupled with the scarcity of available shelters strikes me as absurd. How could so many people hope to protect themselves and others without…

In the middle of preparing for Spring Open Studios this year… the floral, spring-like environment that I had planned for my studio tour was suddenly interrupted, mid-hanging, thanks to the pandemic and subsequent lockdown. Five months later, in preparation for another Open Studios, the four partially hung panels of peony details have become a virtual…

“We need people to see our truth here. We will not stop. We will not quit until this is over.” Julianne V., Covid ICU nurse in NY … At the height of the Covid 19 pandemic, I was struck by a particularly powerful testimonial by a NY ICU nurse on FaceBook. It inspired me to…

BETWEEN THE LINES, an installation in studio 308 I’m a lover of books. I love to look at them, to photograph them in sequences, to accumulate the images into large works and observe the abstract patterns made by their colored spines. I find myself seduced by the visual rhythms of the page ends of books.…

Moved and inspired by the courage and passion of the young MSD survivors of the Valentine Day massacre in Parkland, FL I photographed the signs at the March For Our Lives in San Francisco, and created compositions for a new silk scarf and bandana, to honor and share the message and spirit of this important,…

Inspired by the Women’s March on Washington, and by the clever, witty, irreverent signs crafted by the marchers I created compositions for a silk scarf and a cotton pillow cover celebrating the message and spirit of the march. When you purchase a scarf or a pillow cover from the American Spring collection, a portion of…

These amazing Korean masks were used in a variety of purposes… …in war, ceremoniously to drive away evil spirits, and in the arts, especially in ritual dances and theater. The often horrifying or grotesque masks were used in shamanistic practices for their ability to evoke fear, and humor. Limited edition prints, wall hangings, pillow covers,…

This work is about time suspended… … the same way a body suspended in water must tread the water in order to stay afloat. The moving legs and the water’s refraction and diffraction combine to create an abstract rhythm. Limited edition prints, wall hangings, pillow covers, silk scarves, as well as silk and cotton shirts,…