Exhibitions

 

2007    Hydromancy with Steve Rowell, Rubin Center Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso

 

2006    Gloom and Doom with Steve Rowell, Contemporary Arts Center/Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, Dual location exhibition

Shock and Awe with Steve Rowell, site-specific project for Year_06, London Art Fair, Mary Ward House

Negotiated Localities, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago Art Institute

 

2005    Dirty Water Initiative, InSITE, San Diego, USA/Tijuana, Mexico

            Hot House, Tate Modern Untitled Gallery, London, England           

 

2004    Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

 

2003    Clean Livin’, Permanent installation for Center for Land Use Interpretation. Wendover, UT

Speculative Chicago, A Compendium of Architectural Innovation Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago

 

2002    Session the Bowl. Deitch Projects, New York, NY

Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany, Free Basin and Spec

Mood River Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH.

 

2001    Spec An Acoustic Collaboration between SIMPARCH and Kevin Drumm. The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago

 

2000    Free Basin  Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL.

 

1999    The Unit, Permanent installation for Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT

1998    Ship from the Desert, The Moorings Project, Maschinenhalle, Potsdam Germany

SIMPARCH, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
L’Arche, Ecole Nationale d’Art, Cergy, France
It Is What It Is, Mesilla, NM

 

1997    Rise Overrun, Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, NM
An Investigation of Trans-Architecture in the Western American Highwayscape, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
New Mexico Arts, Sight-specific work, Anthony, NM

1996    1996 Sculpture Project, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Sculpture in the Age of Plastics, Mesilla Park, NM

AleRT 1996, Offsite, Santa Fe, NM      

Close to the Border, New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Juried by Thomas Sokolowsky, Director of the Andy Warhol Museum

Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX

Just Lookin’ is Just Fine, Mesilla, NM

 

 

Visiting Artist Lectures

 

2007                University of Houston

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Mississippi State University

                        University of Texas at El Paso

2006                Sci-Arc, Los Angeles, California

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Transylvania University, Lexington, KY

2005                Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

            Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
2004                University of California, San Diego, CA

2003                Rural Studio, Auburn University, Newbern AL

Columbia College, Chicago, IL

                        University of Illinois, Chicago (lecture and workshop)

2002                Documenta XI, education program, Kassel, Germany

2001                Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
1999                University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1997                Weber State University, Ogden, UT

 

Artist Residencies

2004-5             InSITE_05, Project included several week-long residencies in Tijuana

 

2003,1999       The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, 6-week residencies at the Center’s site in Wendover, UT

 

1998                Brandenberischer Kunsterein, Potsdam, E.V. Potsdam, Germany: 1 month project, co-sponsored by Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, NM

 

Grants

 

2007                Illinois Arts Council

2006                Ohio Arts Council, Excellence Award

2002,2004       Creative Capital Foundation, Project Grant
1997                New Mexico Arts, Public art project grant, Anthony, NM

 

 

Selected Bibliography

 

2006                Gabrys, Jennifer. essay. Surface Tension Supplement No.1 2006

Spaid, Sue. “SIMPARCH”. ArtUS: October-November 2006:62 (photographs)

Kaizaad Kotwal. “Exhibition Has Context of Conflict”. The Columbus Dispatch, August 27, 2006

Chasin, Noah. “This is Punk Rock Architecture”. Art Review July 2006: 47-49 (photographs)

 

2005                Harris, Mark. “Interview with SIMPARCH”. Miser and Now. #5:76 (photographs)

 

2004                Mittleman, Paul. “Being-in-the-Pool”. Yard. Fall 2004:28 (photographs, cover)

Arkitip #24, limited edition publication. SIMPARCH feature

Hartlaub, Peter. “No worries about being ejected from 'free basin,' a show where grinding and thrashing are a must”. San Francisco Chronicle. Thursday, August 5, 2004 (photographs)

Ullrich, Polly. “SIMPARCH’s Social Sculpture at Wendover Air Force Base”. Sculpture, May 2004 (photographs)

 

2003                Weyland, Jocko. “Bowled over, Skate punks catch the wooden wave at Deitch Projects”. Time Out, New York. Jan 9, 2003   

“Session the Bowl (Showstoppers)”. Juxtapoz. July, August 2003:48 (photographs)

Coleman, Cindy. Skate Logic (Centerfold)”. Interior Design. May 2003:232 (photographs)

Blomgren, Lance. “Interview with SIMPARCH”. Matrix. Winter 2003:45 (photographs)

Skruck, Jeff. “SIMPARCH Bowl”. Slap Skateboard Magazine. April 2003 (photograph)

Rosenberg, Karen. “Outside and In”. Village Voice. January 15-21, 2003 (photograph)

Cotter, Holland. “Session the Bowl” (review) The New York Times: B46 (photograph)

Wartofsky, Alona. “Extreme Art: Skateboarders turn Soho Gallery into a Kinetic Performance Piece.” The Washington Post. Feb. 12, 2003 (photograph)  

 

2002                Hall, Peter. “Go with the Flow”. Metropolis Magazine, May 2002

Knight, Christopher. “All Politics, Little Art” The Los Angeles Times. July 7, 2002: 4

Reif, Rita. “A Swimming Pool? A Yacht? No, It’s Art”. The New York Times. March 10, 2002: 23 (photographs)

Obejas, Achy. “For Duo, Documenta is Quite a Ride”. The Chicago Tribune. July 14, 2002

Parr, Debra Riley. “SIMPARCH and Kevin Drumm” (Review). New Art Examiner. March-April, 2002: 78 (photograph)

Fredericksen, Eric. “Architecture that Shreds”. Architecture. April 2, 2002: 46 (photographs)

Ferrara, Annette. “Extreme Acts of Building”. Ten By Ten. Spring/Summer 2002: 42-45 (photographs)

                        Muschamp, Herbert. “Design’s Mood Swings, From Bliss to Rage”. The New York Times. Feb 14, 2002: B1 (photograph)

 

2001                Artner, Alan G. “Exhibit creates Space for Discreet Music.” Chicago Tribune. October 4, 2001 (photograph)

Grabner, Michelle. “SIMPARCH, Hyde Park Art Center”. Frieze. January/February 2001:112-3 (photograph)

                        ”SIMPARCH and Kevin Drumm: Architecturally Site-Specific Sounds”

Indepth arts news. absolutearts.com. November 2001

 

2000                Carter, Jeff and Susan Giles. “Global Art, SIMPARCH”. Flash Art. November, December 2000:96 (photograph)

Hixson, Kathryn. Interview, SIMPARCH. New Art Examiner, November 2000:44 (photographs including cover)

Parr, Debra Riley. Review, SIMPARCH. New Art Examiner, November 2000:50 (photograph)

Reviews, Frieze. November/December:119 (uncredited photograph)

”Cars And Furniture: A Contemporary Design Survey”. New Art Examiner, October 2000:23 (photograph)

Postiglone, Corey. “State of the Art—Expanding the Sculptural in
Chicago.” Dialogue, Sept. Oct. 2000:15 (photographs)

Waxman, Lori. “The Art of Skateboarding.” F News-The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 2000: 14 (photographs)
Powers, Jay. “SIMPARCH’s Free Basin: A Skater’s Perspective.” F News-The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 2000: 15
(photographs)

WBEZ Radio, Chicago NPR Affiliate. Report and Interviews with Lia Alexopolous, Steven Badgett, Skateboarder Patrick Melcher, Chuck Thurow, and Hamza Walker. June 21, 2000

Weirsema, Chris. “Simple Art, Outside the Box with the Boarders of Simparch.” New City. Chicago weekly, June 15, 2000:38 (photograph)
Smith-Lindall, Anders. “On Exhibit: the Hyde Park Art Center Picks Up Speed.” Reader. Chicago weekly, June 2, 2000:39 (photograph)

”Wendover Update: Architects, Writers, and Sound Archivists Work on and Around the C.L.U.I. Compound.” The Lay of the Land, The Center for Land Use Interpretation Newsletter. Summer 2000:3 (photograph)
Allen, Anthony. “Skate-able Art.” Big Brother Skateboarding, October 2000:44 (photographs)
Larson, Tony. Photography by Chris Anderson. “Free Basin, Traditions Carve into Chicago.”  Transworld Skateboarding, October 2000:198 (photographs)
”Bluetorch TV”, aired on Fox Sports, July 3, 2000

1998                Ship from the Desert. (catalog) Hoffman, Christine, Zane Fischer, and Michael Lujan. “The Artists” and “In Conversation.” (interview)  Sept.1998

Park, Mike. “Getting inside the SIMPARCH trailer.” The Reader. Omaha, NE. August 20, 1998: 29 (photograph)     

1997                Wilson, Malin. “Spinning Material Metaphors of Redemption.” The
Albuquerque Journal North. Oct. 16, 1997: 4 (photograph)
McCloud, Kathleen. “Taking concept of shelter to preposterous edge: Simparch thrives on contradictions.” Pasatiempo, Santa Fe’s Weekly Arts and Entertainment Magazine, The Santa Fe New Mexican. Sept. 19-25, 1997 (photograph)
Fischer, Zane. “Learning from Las Cruces: A Conversation with Matt Lynch and Steven Badgett of Simparch.” Plan B Evolving Arts Newsletter. Santa Fe, NM September-October, 1997: 6+

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