Photographs mounted on sintra32 in x 36 in I thought the complex, textured bark on the trunk of this urban tree showed signs of illness. I was surprised to discover the tree was in fact healthy, and was simply revealing its evolving skin layers…
“Some of the Parts” opens in Beacon, New York, June 25th through August 1st. Simo Neri’s rhythmic, sequential photography will be presented, cascading from the ceilings and walls, at the Kiesendahl+Calhoun Contemporary Art gallery. Artist Reception will be held Saturday June 25th. Deconstructing and sequentially re-assembling elements from nature, Simo Neri’s work gives a fresh,…
Photographs mounted on aluminum, lacquered wood structure70 in x 70 in A commission for a private residence, this screen represents the bark of three types of trees. The soft grey-whites of a Massachusetts birch, blend into the strange orange-greys of a California birch, and into the deeper orange-browns of a Roman pine.
7 photographic strips mounted on canvas98 in x 42 in – $6,000 One of my first experiments in perspective flattening through recomposing deconstructed details. The ground’s verticality meets and frames the verticality of the reconstructed tree trunk. I feel I now can understand what this tree is about.
