Simparch

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SIMPARCH

SIMPARCH is an American artist collective that was founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1996. Presently this group is organized and maintained by Matthew Lynch and Steve Badgett. Their practice involves large-scale, usually interactive installations and works that, as the group's name suggests, examine simple architecture, building practices, site specificity and materials that may be salvaged, recycled or generally brought together with a kind of d.i.y. attitude. Often collaborating with other artists, builders, art critics, graffiti artists, filmmakers, and skate boarders, and musicians, SIMPARCH works at providing sites which allow for social interaction and experimentation with design and materials.

[edit] Works

• Maunfactured Home (1996)
• Hell's Trailer (1996)
• Free Basin (2000)
• Spec (2001) in collaboration with musician Kevin Drumm

[edit] Selected Exhibitions and Commissions

• Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004)
• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2004)
• Clean Livin’, Permanent installation for Center for Land Use Interpretation. Wendover, UT (2003)
• Session the Bowl. Deitch Projects, New York, NY (2002)
• Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany, Free Basin and Spec (2002)
• Mood River - Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. (2002)