Peter Simensky,

Aahrt-Drop (from Crash

Landing),

2003, custom parachute,

frame, Aahrt-Boy Bars, printed

cardboard boxes, steel

pedestal, enamel, installation

view.

The sculpture Aahrt–Drop 

constitutes a shipment of

handmade artist energy bars

dropped by parachute into a

gallery, crushing a pedestal

and occupying a picture frame.

Above a hole is painted on the

ceiling.

Peter Simensky,

Artist Drop (from Crash

Landing),

2003, cast cement with acrylic

paint, spray paint on wood,

plaster and spray paint on

Styrofoam, acrylic wall

painting, cactus, television,

and 3 minute video loop.

Along with Aarht Drop, Artist

Drop questions how art and

artist come into being and how

a work might find itself in a

gallery setting. Part heroic -

part foolishness, the artist is

dropped from the sky. This

video is played on an upturned

television next to a park bench

in alter states.

Peter Simensky,

Crash Landing,

2003, installation view, Hunter

College, New York.

This installation view shows

the three works in a field of

painted targets, faux desert

rocks, and cactus. Each work

set below a hole in the ceiling,

maintains a relationship to the

architecture, compiling various

scenarios of triumph or failure.

Peter Simensky,

Bunk Tower,

2003, oil on wood with

handmade bedding, 14 x 1 x

2’.

This fourteen-foot structure

fluctuates in its likeness

between a glorious tower and a

crippled, self-propagating

series of stacked bunk beds.

A dream object for orphans or

a possible solution for

communal living, Bunk Tower 

shows both idealism and

desperation.