"Charles Simonds occupies the sweet and ethical position of giving his art away. For years now he has built tiny clay brick dwellings in the predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side to accommodate a migratory race of little people. Simonds’s mythopoesis is immediately accessible. ... But Simonds’s efforts are also a small-scale mimic of the earth workers’s moves out of the studio to build in the vast deserts out west. Simonds’s dwellings, built with a museological precision, are based on Indian pueblo architecture, particularly the centuries-abandoned cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde, Colorado. ...”
2018 October: Dwelling
Dwelling Niagra Gorge, ArtPark, Lewiston, NY 1974
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