Cassandra Simon

Exhibitions

2007  

Lucky Stars, Faufitown Projects, Santa Monica, CA

MACO Contemporary Art Fair, Mexico City, for Faufitown Projects, Santa Monica, CA

2006  

Bridge Art Fair, Miami, for Faufitown Projects, Santa Monica, CA

Deitch Projects Art Parade, for Le Pinchefuntastique, Sister Siamese Swap meet, Brown Out Seis y Medio

Venice Art Walk Benefit Auction, Track 16, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

Center of Creative Arts Benefit Auction (Invitation, Tom Huck), St Louis, Mo

Marginalia, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA

2005    

Fresh!, Philip Slein Gallery, St Louis, Mo

Out Of The Box and Onto The Dance Floor, Fort Gondo, St Louis, Mo

(organized and curated, see print portfolios Blatantly Kitsch)

Mighty Mile High Flying Pies, Fort Gondo, St Louis, Mo

Under Pressure, Des Lee Gallery, St Louis, Mo

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Landscapes and Fairytales,Des Lee Gallery, St Louis Mo

2004

Brown Out IV, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, Ca

Rosh Ambo, St Mary’s College Art Museum, Indiana

Print Show, Des Lee Gallery, St Louis, Mo

Our Name on a Grain of Rice, Des Lee Gallery, St Louis, Mo

Was-Waste, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Art Museum

2003  

Le Brown Out Deux, 51 Buckingham, Pomona, Ca

2002   

Ink, Not Dirt Printmaking Show, Cal State University Long Beach

Senior Thesis Show,Cal State University Long Beach

Insights, Cal State University Long Beach

Blatant Youth Glamorization, Gallery Figueroa, Los Angeles, Ca

2001   

Blind Sight, Long Beach, California

Fresh Ink: Collaborative Printmaking/ Drawing Project, Cal State Univ Long Beach

Fantasy Caboose, Long Beach, California

Los Angeles Printmaking Society, “New Views” Show, Los Angeles, Ca

Print Portfolios

2006   

Freaks, Geeks, and the Unloved (Dirty Printmakers of America)

2005   

Blatantly Kitsch (Organizer) St Louis, MO

  The artists were asked to produce a print edition using non-traditional art  materials and embrace the  

  aesthetics of kitsch and popular culture. 24 artists participated.  The portfolio, along with the Rock and Roll 

  Damnation and Mug Shots portfolios were exhibited at Out of the box and Onto the Dance Floor at Fort

  Gondo Art Complex, St Louis, MO.  A lecture, briefly discussing printmaking processes, the history of

  printmaking and the print portfolio was given.  The Olin Library Special Collections, Washington University

  in St. Louis. has collected the portfolio.

Rock and Roll Damnation (Dirty Printmakers of America) Private invition

Show at WH Over Museum, Vermillion, SD, 2005

2004   

Dimensions University of Arizona  shown at Rutgers University, SGC

Mug Shots (Dirty Printmakers of America) Private Invitation, Austin, Texas

Shown at Pratt University, New York, 2004

Collections

Olin Library, Special Collections, Washington University in St. Louis

Commissions

Background “skin” for WWW. Mog.com., music website, will be published 11/06

Entravision company Christmas card 2006

Bibliography

Vista Sandra, Lucky Stars, Faufitown Projects, WhiteHot Magazine, 2007

Latino Heritage Calendar 2006, City of  Los Angeles

Bridge Art Miami, Catalogue, 2006

Benetti, David, Summer Shows Offer Less Well-Known Talent, St Louis Post Dispatch, 7/24/05

Cooper, Ivy, Ivy Cooper Encapsulates The St. Louis Art Scene, River Front Times, 7/13/05

Employment

Gallery Manager

Assists director with overseeing all aspects of running a fine art gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA that has three exhibition spaces and a print gallery; from the creation and maintenance of budgets, to all aspects of exhibition installation (technical and aesthetic), exhibition promotion (formats written material for published material], to handling sales and customer service.  Responsible for helping maintain extensive artwork inventory and exhibition chronology log for Smithsonian Institution's archive of the gallery and Patricia Correia Gallery's archive.  Responsible for the care and preservation of all artwork at the gallery (on view or in storage).  Responsible for documenting (logging and photographing) incoming and outgoing artwork on hardcopy, in computer, and on website. Assist with gallery projects from loans of artwork to museum exhibitions (national and international) and special institutions (Mayor's office, consulates, and embassies) to donating artwork to fundraisers.

August 2005- December 2005, Lecturer, Printmaking and Drawing Area, Sam Fox School of Art and Design, Washington University in St Louis

Taught a 3unit upper division printmaking course, The Matrix and The Monoprint, to freshmen level through graduate level students. Students were introduced to a range of intaglio, relief, and monotype methods with an emphasis on creating monoprints using several printmaking matrixes.  The course included power point and slide lectures in order to familiarize students with the history of the process being introduced and introduce them to the work of past and contemporary artists and art movements.  Each assignment was followed by a critique where the students participated.

February 2005- December 2005, William Shearburn Gallery, St Louis, MO

May 2004 – December 2005, Server Captain, Catering St. Louis, St Louis, MO

Front of house manager for catering company.  Over sees event set up and break down with event coordinator for large catering events.  Coordinated servers and food runners with back of house.

2003-2005 Assistant to Master Printer at Island Press, Washington University in St Louis Worked on Projects For: Chakia Booker, Tom Friedman, Michael Byron, James Barsness, Peter Marcus Assisted with collaborating with artists, printing, technical trouble shooting, and collating fine art editions (some collected by Whitney Museum of American Art).

8/2003- 5/2005 Teacher’s Assistant, Washington University in St Louis, School of Art

Assisted professor with conducting lectures, critiques and one on one interaction with students.  Assisted with grading assignments.  Projects ranged from traditional 2-D design assignments to interactive installation projects that were in collaboration with students from a 3-D design class

Fall 2004 Mary Borgman, Drawing 101

Assisted professor with conducting lectures, critiques and one on one interaction with students.  Assisted with grading assignments.  Presented themed slide lectures to students (e.g. contour line or movement and rhythm in drawing).  The class introduced the students to a variety of mediums (dry) and the basic principles of drawing and perspective with an emphasis on the measurement of angles.  The majority of class sessions were focused on drawing the figure (live model).

Fall 2003 Tom Huck, Printmaking Elective: Themed and Boxed

This was a themed class where students made a suite of prints and a housing unit for them.  Assisted professor with conducting lectures and one on one interaction with students regarding technical and conceptual aspects of their project.  Gave technical demonstrations for etching, monotype, and plate lithography

2001 – 2002 Teacher’s Assistant, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (for academic credit)

Fall 2002  Endi Poskovic, Relief Printmaking

Assisted professor with conducting technical demonstrations and critiques. Gave technical demonstration for reduction relief printing.  Worked one on one with students regarding the technical and conceptual aspects of their project.

Spring 2001, Roxanne Sexauer, Intaglio Printmaking

Assisted professor with conducting lectures, had one on one interaction with students regarding technical and conceptual aspects of their project, and assisted with grading and written critiques of assignments

Scholarships/Awards

JENS Scholarship, Washington University in St Louis, School of Art 2003-2005

Frogman’s Press Award, Washington University in St Louis Printmaking and Drawing Area 2004

Los Angeles Printmaking Society Student Scholarship 2002

Summer Scholarship, California State University Long Beach Printmaking Department, 2001