Mike Simi

Mike Simi’s work is creatively simple and subtly subversive allowing for his sculptures to become troublemakers, denying themselves their original function while barely able to operate with their new identity. Although confused, these objects continue to push on, working towards a new unknown purpose. A schizophrenic respect for all this exists side by side with a harmless disregard towards everything. The common denominator in his work is a smart and incisive commentary on the trappings of self-representation by way of class and economy. Recent ink drawings show a naïve urgency to communicate. Half earnest, half tongue-in-cheek, these drawings often reveal a truth wrapped in humor. Simi recognizes the conflict hidden within his works and believes that conflict can be a form of beauty and a place of honest communication.

Simi has shown his works in a number of exhibitions including Volta New York, New York, Sluice, London, England, Season, Seattle, Washington, Threewalls, Chicago, Illinois, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, and International Contemporary Art in Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, among others. He has held residencies at Pilchuck Glass, Stanwood, Washington and S12 Glassworks, Bergen, Norway. 

Courtesy of Season