04/30/2026
Timmy Simonds
Teachers Bouquets
May 2nd - June 5th
Opening this Saturday, May 2nd (6-8pm)
Pedagogy is not just a theme in Timmy Simonds’s work. It is almost his medium.
His works treat teaching itself as a material phenomenon, a sound, a choreography, an architecture, a social relation, or, in some cases, a type of broken altruism.
Across the exhibition, materials remain delicate and unstable: water, paper, fabric, collard greens, bleached organic matter, thin ribbons moving with air. These require tending. They wilt, shift, decay, and persist.
The Teachers Bouquet works are arrangements, but also offerings. They collapse organic growth with social ritual, becoming provisional forms that hold care, reward, and loss.
Chains enter elsewhere. Movement becomes structured and cyclical. Actions repeat and accumulate into pattern. What begins as care can become habit. What appears as support can become control.
The work unfolds at the threshold between care and discipline, nurture and domination
