May 30 - June 23, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 30, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Work Machines

George Simonds

George Simonds is a multidisciplinary Brooklyn-based artist who combines and repurposes everyday objects to create machines with abstract functions. With no formal engineering education, these crude handmade machines work to complete an illogical task. The objects that comprise these sculptures are found by coincidence, and the artist’s process is to “work with these chance objects to create a machine that functions, despite its incompatible materials.”

About the Artist

George Simonds lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and is a graduate of SUNY Purchase College.

 GALLERY HOURS:

Thurs.-Sun., 1pm to 6pm, or by appointment. 

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, the Greenwich Collection, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, Humanities NY, and the Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation.