Artist Profile

Chip Simone

 (1945)

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1945, Chip Simone was educated in the visual arts at Rhode Island School of Design. Simone learned the history and tradition of creative photography from the American master Harry Callahan. Simone’s work is a unique confluence of the American modernist photographic tradition epitomized by his teacher Harry Callahan, and the new digital street photography that has only recently burst out.

In 1973, Simone was one of the founding members of NEXUS, Atlanta’s first photography gallery. In 1980 his work was exhibited at the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, and in 1982 he received a Photographers Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1985, the French Ministry of Culture exhibited his photographs throughout Paris, Toulouse, and Angouleme as part of the Atlanta in France cultural exchange.

Simone is a street photographer. He describes, ‘My pictures celebrate the very act of seeing... making pictures with a camera is a complex and graceful human endeavor… The potential of photography lies in its ability to render with clarity and eloquence that bestows gravity to common objects and invests moments in time with a significance that transcends time. It is not what the photographer sees, but rather how the photographer sees.’

  

Didier Massard 

Jim Campbell 

Jim Campbell (b. 1956, Chicago, IL) is a contemporary San Francisco based artist who primarily works with LED light installations. Cambpell began his artistic career in film making but switched to electronic sculpture in 1990 and started making his iconic LED matrix works in 2000.^[1] His current work combines film, sound, and LED light installations.^[2] He has emerged as a leading figure in new media arts. 

Education Campbell received a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and mathematics in 1978.^[1]

awards: 

• 2010-17: Werner Klotz & Jim Campbell Reflecting Ribbon, The New San Francisco Central Subway, Union Square Market Station ^[4]
• 2010-13: San Diego County Regional Airport Authority Installation ^[5]
• 2010-2011: Madison Square Park Conservancy, "Scattered Light", New York ^[6]
• 2003-2004: Guggenheim Fellowship (This award is given to those who show "exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.")
• 2002-2003: Langlois Foundation Grant, Montreal
• 1999-2000: Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship Award in Multimedia
• 1999-2001: Eureka Fellowship Award, Fleishhacker Foundation
• 1996: SECA Electronic Media Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Quotes 

"At 47 or 48 feet we have no concern. We have a levee system that is in excellent condition. We feel very comfortable that we are not going to have any problems."

"Seat belts are optional. Required, but optional."