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Sima Schloss
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 Forget Me Please Forgive Me acrylic, markers and collage, 72” x 60" |
 Sleepless Tangent acrylic, markers and collage, 60” x 72” |
 What I've Left Behind acrylic, markers and collage, 45” x 37” |
 Mexican Standoff acrylic, markers and collage, 72” x 45" |
 Houdini’s Last Conquest acrylic, markers and collage, 24” x 30” |
 Three Sides acrylic, markers and collage, 45” x 37” |
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Artist Profile By a scrape of paint, a swatch of sky, memories and bones, bodies of water and floating cities. All this and more invade the mixed media work of Sima Schloss. Her goal is not to beautify the already beautiful forms of nature but to strip the veneer, crack open the vessel and display the vulnerability, the glossy innards of life and human wants. Practicing pop culture alchemy, Sima transmutes words and images into collage both humorous and haunting. Labor-intensive painting and deft mastery of collage co-exist in Sima Schloss's mixed media work, which is supplemented by the imagery of magazines, dollar bills and personal memories from her childhood in Long Island. The prettiness of her work is less apparent than its arresting quality, but the assemblage is all there: Reminders of the 60's and 70's, urban decay, pop art and cultural images of Modern America that have all strongly influenced her lifestyle. The artist received a BFA in Painting from Roger Williams University and studied at SACI Studio Art Center in Florence, Italy. She has exhibited in Open Studios, Juvenal Reiss Studios in LIC, N.Y., an exhibition in General Store, curated by Clifford Schickler, Brooklyn, N.Y., and the Private Salon, curated by Deanna Medina, New York, N.Y. Schloss has created work for a number of companies including Miss Sixty, Song Airlines, and The Soho Journal. Currently Sima works for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in their education department teaching art to ESL and GED students. She has recently relocated her studio to Long Island City where she is now working on independent projects.
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