Jeffrey Simmons | Works on Paper 2000 - 2018


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CARBON ELLIPSE, 2018
Water soluble graphite on paper
15 x 13.25 inches
$2,100



GRAPHITE ELLIPSE, 2018
Water soluble graphite on paper
15 x 13.25 inches
$2,100



MIRROR RIM II, 2017-8
Watercolor on paper
27.5 x 24.5 inches
$5,200



MIRROR RIM III, 2018
Watercolor on paper
28.25 x 23.25 inches
$5,200

Open Work: Recent Watercolors
November 3 - December 23, 2016

The Seattle Times, November 22, 2016 review:
At Greg Kucera, catch 2 Seattle artists at the top of their game
Reviews of two masterful exhibitions at Greg Kucera Gallery: Mark Calderon's "Show of Hands" and Jeffrey Simmons' "Open Work: Recent Watercolors."



FIRE SERIF I , 2016
Paper with holes and watercolor
14.25 x 10 inches
$2,000



FIRE SERIF II, 2016
Paper with holes and watercolor
14.25 x 10 inches
$2,000



FIRE SERIF III, 2016
Paper with holes and watercolor
14.25 x 10 inches
$2,000



FIRE SERIF IV, 2016
Paper with holes and watercolor
14.25 x 10 inches
SOLD



FIRE SERIF V, 2016
Paper with holes and watercolor
14.25 x 10 inches
$2,000



AMEN BREAK I, 2016
Watercolor on paper
16.5 x 19.25 inches (2 parts, 16.5 x 9.5 inches each)
$3,200



AMEN BREAK II, 2016
Watercolor on paper
16.5 x 19.25 inches (2 parts, 16.5 x 9.5 inches each)
$3,200



EARTH RESONATOR I, 2016
Watercolor on paper
19.25 x 13.5 inches
$2,400


EARTH RESONATOR II, 2016
Watercolor on paper
19.25 x 13.5 inches
$2,400


MARS RESONATOR I, 2016
Watercolor on paper
19.25 x 13.5 inches
$2,400


MARS RESONATOR II 2016
Watercolor on paper
19.25 x 13.5 inches
$2,400



CERULEAN TRAVELER, 2015
Watercolor on paper
19.25 x 13.5 inches
$2,400


LARGER CADMIUM RESONATOR I, 2015
Watercolor on paper
19.25 x 13.5 inches
$2,400


LARGER BLACK RESONATOR I, 2015
Watercolor on paper
19.25 x 13.5 inches
$2,400


LARGER BLACK RESONATOR II, 2015
Watercolor on paper
19.25 x 13.5 inches
$2,400


LARGER BLACK RESONATOR III, 2015
Watercolor on paper
19.25 x 13.5 inches
$2,400




EARTH TRAVELER, 2016
Watercolor on paper
19.25 x 13.5 inches
$2,400


PALINDROME I, 2012
Watercolor on paper
15 x 6.25 inches each (15 sheets), 45.5 x 32.25 inches total
$6,400

Detail of PALINDROME I, 2012




CIRCUIT, 2010
Watercolor on paper
5 x 13 inches each (10 sheets), 26.25 x 26.25 inches total
$4,900



CHROMATIC RESONATOR IV, 2012
Watercolor on paper
15 x 10.5 inches
$2,000



CHROMATIC RESONATOR V, 2013
Watercolor on paper
15 x 10.5 inches
$2,000




CHROMATIC RESONATOR VI, 2013
Watercolor on paper
15 x 10.5 inches
$2,000




RESONATOR III, 2012
Watercolor on paper
15 x 10 inches
$2,000



RESONATOR IV, 2012
Watercolor on paper
15 x 10 inches
$2,000




RESONATOR V, 2012
Watercolor on paper
15 x 10.75 inches
$2,000




RESONATOR VI, 2012
Watercolor on paper
15 x 10.5 inches
$2,000




SLANTING STACK, 2011
Watercolor on paper
16 x 11.25 inches
$2,000.



ROTATION I, 2010
Watercolor on paper
15 x 11.25 inches
$2,000.



ROTATION II, 2010
Watercolor on paper
22.5 x 15 inches
$2,700



ROTATION III, 2010
Watercolor on paper
22.5 x 15.25 inches
$2,700


SINGULARITY III, 2010
Watercolor on paper
15.25 x 10.5 inches
$1,800



SINGULARITY IV, 2010
Watercolor on paper
15.25 x 10.5 inches
$1,800


LARGER CHORUS VI (Pale Blue, Orange), 2004
Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 inches
$1,800




LARGER CHORUS VIII (Ultramarine), 2004
Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 inches
$1,800



LARGER CHORUS IX (Violet), 2004
Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 inches
$1,800



AURORA (multi-color ring), 2002
Watercolor on paper, 15.5 x 14 inches
$2,000



AMANITA (3 red circles), 2000
Watercolor on paper 11.5 x 11.25 inches
$1,800



DARK CLUSTER (circle mandala), 2000
Watercolor on paper, 11.25 x 11.25 inches
$1,800



SIGNAL (ring), 2000
Watercolor on paper, 11.25 x 11.25 inches
$1,800



UNTITLED MULTI (3 columns rings), 2000
Watercolor on paper, 10 x 8.5 inches
$1,800

Photo Courtesy of Robert Wade

"Simmons' paintings...are the precisionist path. He's working with finely controlled geometric figures, mostly concentric circles. He's still spinning them, discharging the loaded brush on the turning paper, but now with the accuracy and focus of a diamond cutter.

Simmons is working in watercolor, and his palette is as finely controlled as his hand. He calibrates each stripe, for width, saturation and for color. The narrow bands of color are so regular that they look dimensional, like layers of colored paper, sliced through at an angle. He moves from groups of bright stripes through areas of musty, smoggy stripes, from small variations of color to extreme difference in color and in value. It's easy to read concentric circles as targets.

The unsettling outcome of all this fine muscle control and fine mental control is that many of Simmons' works read as the impossibly tidy leftovers of some violent action, as if the paper had been drilled through by a bullet. They're small, tense and stunning."
- Victoria Josslin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 2000

Prints



ISAAC WATTS, 2010
Soap ground aquatint on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper
23.25 x 17.5 inches
Edition of 10
$750 unframed


SILENCE, 2010
Drypoint with burnishing on Magnani Pescia paper
20 x 14 inches
Edition of 15
$500 unframed



KOHOUTEK (ghost image), 2010
Drypoint with burnishing on Magnani Pescia paper
20 x 14 inches
Edition of 15
$500 unframed



VELVET, 2010
Soap ground aquatint on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper
20 x 14 inches
Edition of 15
$500 unframed



BLIND AGENT, 2008
White ground aquatint, aquatint, and drypoint.
28 x 20 inches
Edition of 35
$700


Toner Drawings


TONER DRAWING IV, 1999
Copier toner on paper, 11.25 x 10.25 inches
$750 unframed



TONER DRAWING V, 1999
Copier toner on paper, 10.5 x 6.5 inches
$750 unframed