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JOEL SIMPSON, PHOTOGRAPHER
351 Princeton Road
jssphoto@verizon.net
Union, New Jersey 07083 phone:
908-686-9539
www.joelsimpsonart.com
Photographic Exhibitions and PUBLICATIONS
•49 years in photography, including
portraiture, travel, weddings, events, nature. Experienced in the black and
white darkroom.
•8 years professional photography
•2002
Journey to the Heart of the Rock: Photographs of the Colorado Plateau Union Township (NJ) Public
Library Art Gallery, Solo Show, by invitation.
•2002
Body Buildings Photo District Gallery, New York, I’ll Take Manhattan Group Show, by
invitation.
•2003
Communion with Her Visible Forms: Photographs of the Colorado Plateau De Corte Pavillion, Meadowlands
State Park, Lyndhurst, NJ, Solo Show, by invitation.
•2003
Body Projections, The Surface (website: www.surfaceonline.org), by invitation.
•2003
Junior and the Soggy Bush, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, Brave
Destiny Group Show, juried.
•2003
Body Projections, Gallery 114, Midland Texas, 3 Artist Show, by invitation.
•2003
New Mexico/Berkshires De Corte Pavillion, Meadowlands State Park, Lyndhurst,
NJ, Solo Show, by
invitation.
•2004
Body Projections CBGB Gallery 313, New York, Group Show, by invitation.
•2004
Leaf Woman, Salut Marcel (Body Projections), Williamsburg Art and Historical Center,
Brooklyn, Member
Show, by invitation.
•2004
Body Projections, Art and Frame Source Gallery, Richardson, Texas, juried.
•2005
Graffitti/Petroglyph, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, Member
Show, by invitation.
•2005
Hausfrau (body projection), Seattle Erotic Art Fair, juried.
•2006
New “Discoveries” in Rock Art (10 works, body projections), Griffin Gallery, Madison,
NJ, by invitation.
•2006
Convenience Store Portrait, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins,
CO, juried.
•2006
Ramaria, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, juried.
•2007
Hausfrau, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, juried.
•2007 Leaf
Woman: Hommage à Magritte, published in View Photography Magazine (Brussels) No.
5 (Winter 2007).
•2007 Ice
Fractures, Abstractions
Show, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. Also
features on press release of show, juried.
•2007 Hausfrau, published in Camera Arts, no. 58, (May-June, 2007 ).
•2007 Cwmtydu,
Members Show,
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, juried.
•2007 Virtual
Sculpture (6
works) in Sun Pictures to Mega-Pixels, Photography Show at the Williamsburg
Art and Historical Center, Sept. 29–Nov. 4, curated.
•2007 Photonic
Sculptural Movement,
Photochoreographic performance in collaboration with choreographer
Yana Schnitzler and Human Kinetics Movement Arts, Williamsburg Art and
Historical Center, Oct. 13, 2007. Repeat performance at Materials for the Arts,
Queens,
Oct. 23,
2007.
•2008 Virtual
Sculpture and Transfigurations of the Human Figure, Group Show with 3 photographers.
M&H Gallery and Frame Shop, 9 W. 20th St., New York. January– February,
2008.
•2008 Hausfrau,
featured in The
Dirty Show, Detroit, MI, juried.
•2008 Virtual
Sculpture. Three
works as part of photographic exposition at A Fine Art Gallery, 5
Calle Mexico,
Barcelona, Spain, May, 2008, by invitation.
•2008 Unknown
Wales, 5 works
accepted with Honorable Mention in Prix de la Photo de Paris (PX3),
Paris,
France, juried.
•2008 Hausfrau,
published in The
World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today, Vol. 2, Miami, ES Publishing,
2008, pp. 84 & 200.
•2008 La Sculpture virtuelle, La Chapelle Sainte-Anne, Tours,
France, part of Photofolies en Touraine, Oct. 12–Nov. 15, 2008, by
invitation. Photochoreographic performance: Le
Mouvement sculptural photonique, Oct. 15, 2008.
•2008 La
Sculpture virtuelle (et ses avatars), Le Musée de L’érotisme, Paris. 50 pieces, Oct. 23,
2008–March 31, 2009, by invitation.
•2009 Hello,
Marcel , featured
in The Dirty Show, Detroit, MI, juried.
•2009, signed for European
representation with Barbarian-Art Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland.
•2009 Body
Spirit Image, 11
images in a two-artist show, Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, by invitation.
•2009 Body
Projections/Virtual Sculpture, Gelato Art Salon, Brooklyn, by invitation.
•2009 Black Madonna, 2 images in group show, one
publlished in catalogue, HP Garcia Gallery,
New York, by invitation.
•2010 Winter Salon, 2 images in
group show, plus Photonic Sculptural Movement photochoreographic
performance, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, by invitation.
•2010
Stirrings Still, group show at White Box, New York. Empire of Illusion I & II, consisting of
16x8 foot (488x244 cm) photo mural and an ironically gilded-framed 11x14 (28x36
cm).
By invitation.
•2011 Winter Salon, 2 images in
group show, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, by invitation
•2011
Pandemonium, 1 image, Leg-Powered Aviatrix, HP Garcia Gallery, by
invitation.
•2011 Celebrating Empire No.8, published in Adbusters: Journal
of the Mental Environment, #97, Sept/Oct 2011, p. 60 (no page
numbers).
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Other experience & Publications
•Taught college
English, French and Italian at area universities, including Montclair State
University, Kean University, Drew Univeristy, Fordham, Columbia, and Fairleigh
Dickenson; also English at the University of New Orleans, 1973–78.
•Professional
writer/editor. Correspondent since 2004 for The New York Art World of gallery and museum
shows, mostly about photography. Currently writing art reviews, local and
international for Artshub.com (London).
Long experience in music journalism and technical writing, including
article and reviews for Dutch photography quarterly Eyemazing.
•Produced
The Dick Hyman Century of Jazz Piano CD-ROM, 1999, music software that
sold worldwide and was reviewed in the mainstream and music press in the US and
France. Cited as one of the thirteen best CD-ROMs of 1999 by the New York Times.
•Jazz pianist,
composer, writer, 1978–2000. Played in hotels and clubs in New Orleans &
New York, with tours in France (Foire de Niort, 1990, Villeneuve-sur-Lot 1993)
and Italy (Pompeii Jazz Festival, 1990). CD: Subterranean Sweetie, 1994, Beat Records—all original
compositions.
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Education
Master
of Music
1994, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA.
Ph.
D. 1976,
Brown University, Providence, RI.
Comparative
literature, French & English novel and literary theory.
Studies in
Italian,
Università di Siena, 1969; German: Goethe-Institut, Berlin, 1975.
B.
A. 1968, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, NC. Comparative literature, French, English and Italian.
Diplôme de langue et de
littérature françaises, Université de Lyon, 1967.
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