on view: May 21 - June 26, 2005
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 21, 5–7pm

Sculptures and Drawings, 1989 –2005

Arthur Simms

A recent recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship, the mixed media sculptor Arthur Simms represented Jamaica in its first ever pavilion in the 49th Venice Biennial in 2001. He is known for his ability to turn found objects into dynamic sculptures that combine formal arrangements with the wit, lightheartedness and craft sensibility of the Caribbean. The sculptures are made of the detritus of the urban landscape –wood, rocks, wire, scrap metal etc. Arthur Simms’ art merges his American education with his Jamaican roots. At FiveMyles he will exhibit sculptures and rarely shown drawings that date from 1989 to 2005. Like his sculptures, Simms’ drawings are an amalgam of cross cultural dialogue.

Arthur Simms is an adjunct professor of art at Brooklyn College and Cooper Union School of Art. In New York he has exhibited at MOMA PS1, the Queens Museum of Art, Socrates Sculpture Park and the Neuberger Museum at SUNY Purchase, among others. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, NYFA Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Pollock-Krasner Grant, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Fellowship.

A brochure with an essay by Robert Storr will accompany the exhibition.

This exhibition has been made possible in part by a Creative Capital Individual Artist Support Grant.

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.