Charles Simonds: About Time

Since 1970 Charles Simonds has made dwelling places for an imaginary civilization of Little People who are migrating through the streets of cities throughout the world. He has worked with immigrant communities, patients in mental hospitals, refugee children and at a rural school in Southern India. His work concerns how we live and how we understand our built environment as an expression of beliefs about nature, the past, present and future. He served on the Board of the Lower East Side Coalition for Human Housing as a community advocate in the 1970’s.

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a dissertation on art, AIDS, and lesbian identity in the United States. Soboleva is currently working on a book project titled Friendship as a Way of Art: Queer Identity and Visual Citation, and co-editing (with Svetlana Kitto) the first major publication on the lesbian gallery Trial Balloon. Her writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, Ursula Magazine, as well as various exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. She teaches at the New School and NYU.