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Greg Simpson, Traces of Summer, 1996

Gregg Simpson
Traces of Summer,
1996

Gregg Simpson was born in Ottawa in 1947, but moved immediately to the west coast with his family. He is one of two sons of pioneering Modernist architect, D.C. Simpson and concert soprano, Ferne Cairns. His career began during the 1960's when he was also involved in launching multi-media events and building his complimentary career as a noted jazz drummer.
He began exhibiting at Vancouver's Bau-xi Gallery in group and three person shows. Following this period, Simpson became increasingly interested in the occult subjects of alchemy, mythology and other arcane subjects such as Atlantis. In 1971, supported by a Canada Council grant and a letter of introduction from William Rubin of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Simpson went to Paris and eventually organized the first European touring exhibition of west coast art. This exhibition, entitled Canadian West Coast Hermetics, was seen in Paris by French art historian, Jose Pierre who also saw and wrote about subsequent exhibitions during the 1970's that featured the artist and his colleagues in the West Coast Surrealist group. Simpson has continued to be published and to exhibit internationally with both the neo-surrealists and the Paris-based PHASES Movement.
Gregg Simpson has been written about in such publications as Vie Des Arts (Montreal), Vanguard Magazine (Vancouver), Art Magazine (Toronto) and TerzoOcchio (Bologna, Italy). His work has been collected by public galleries and universities, and represented in corporate and private collections in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America.
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