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Art Like Love (ALL!) notpaulsimon, "Signal (not medusa)"
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notpaulsimon, "Signal (not medusa)"

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2023

steel, aluminum, bulbs, wiring, hardware

32H x 20W x 20L "

EXHIBITION STATEMENT

Loops by Paul Simon (2021–ongoing) 

Neon and metal sculptures by Paul Simon. With a background in human biology and commercial  photography, Simon says his approach to making is intuitive and imaginative. He uses light, glass,  metalwork, assemblage, and movement as tools for investigation. “I often work with collected scraps  and found objects, assembling gestural and expressive anthropomorphic forms that address the body’s  contemporary relationship to multidimensional space,” said Simon. “My work subverts the figure— reducing it to bends, cuts, and joints—to depict an abstract and queer understanding of the body as  multifarious and always shifting. I seek whim, loops, paradox, and wit encountered in daily life. I often  change my mind, go full circle, and arrive at the beginning.” 

BIO

Paul Simon, also known as notpaulsimon, is a queer Romanian American artist living and working in  Brooklyn, New York. Simon creates a fantastical world in which materialities are present and absent,  both hiding in plain sight and visible as objects of the digital imaginary. Born in Southern California and  raised in Phoenix, AZ, Simon graduated with a bachelor of science in 2016. Soon after he moved to  New York City and received his MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts (2019). His work  has been exhibited internationally at venues including Caselli 11-12 (Milan), Oped Space (Tokyo),  Culture Lab (Queens), Untitled (Miami), Paradice Palase (Brooklyn), and Wassaic Project (New York).  His work has been featured in GUP, Garage, and Wired, among other publications. He is the recipient  of the 2019 PDN Photography Award for his thesis project “Genesis of Desire.” 

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2023

steel, aluminum, bulbs, wiring, hardware

32H x 20W x 20L "

EXHIBITION STATEMENT

Loops by Paul Simon (2021–ongoing) 

Neon and metal sculptures by Paul Simon. With a background in human biology and commercial  photography, Simon says his approach to making is intuitive and imaginative. He uses light, glass,  metalwork, assemblage, and movement as tools for investigation. “I often work with collected scraps  and found objects, assembling gestural and expressive anthropomorphic forms that address the body’s  contemporary relationship to multidimensional space,” said Simon. “My work subverts the figure— reducing it to bends, cuts, and joints—to depict an abstract and queer understanding of the body as  multifarious and always shifting. I seek whim, loops, paradox, and wit encountered in daily life. I often  change my mind, go full circle, and arrive at the beginning.” 

BIO

Paul Simon, also known as notpaulsimon, is a queer Romanian American artist living and working in  Brooklyn, New York. Simon creates a fantastical world in which materialities are present and absent,  both hiding in plain sight and visible as objects of the digital imaginary. Born in Southern California and  raised in Phoenix, AZ, Simon graduated with a bachelor of science in 2016. Soon after he moved to  New York City and received his MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts (2019). His work  has been exhibited internationally at venues including Caselli 11-12 (Milan), Oped Space (Tokyo),  Culture Lab (Queens), Untitled (Miami), Paradice Palase (Brooklyn), and Wassaic Project (New York).  His work has been featured in GUP, Garage, and Wired, among other publications. He is the recipient  of the 2019 PDN Photography Award for his thesis project “Genesis of Desire.” 

2023

steel, aluminum, bulbs, wiring, hardware

32H x 20W x 20L "

EXHIBITION STATEMENT

Loops by Paul Simon (2021–ongoing) 

Neon and metal sculptures by Paul Simon. With a background in human biology and commercial  photography, Simon says his approach to making is intuitive and imaginative. He uses light, glass,  metalwork, assemblage, and movement as tools for investigation. “I often work with collected scraps  and found objects, assembling gestural and expressive anthropomorphic forms that address the body’s  contemporary relationship to multidimensional space,” said Simon. “My work subverts the figure— reducing it to bends, cuts, and joints—to depict an abstract and queer understanding of the body as  multifarious and always shifting. I seek whim, loops, paradox, and wit encountered in daily life. I often  change my mind, go full circle, and arrive at the beginning.” 

BIO

Paul Simon, also known as notpaulsimon, is a queer Romanian American artist living and working in  Brooklyn, New York. Simon creates a fantastical world in which materialities are present and absent,  both hiding in plain sight and visible as objects of the digital imaginary. Born in Southern California and  raised in Phoenix, AZ, Simon graduated with a bachelor of science in 2016. Soon after he moved to  New York City and received his MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts (2019). His work  has been exhibited internationally at venues including Caselli 11-12 (Milan), Oped Space (Tokyo),  Culture Lab (Queens), Untitled (Miami), Paradice Palase (Brooklyn), and Wassaic Project (New York).  His work has been featured in GUP, Garage, and Wired, among other publications. He is the recipient  of the 2019 PDN Photography Award for his thesis project “Genesis of Desire.” 

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