A STICK A STONE A TREE:
Alette Simmons-Jiménez

Artist Alette Simmons-Jiménez presents A Stick A Stone A Tree, a multimedia installation. Her visual world, constructed via layers of assembly, overlap, and erasure, blurs the divisions between image, object, and imagination. Artworks have been created using a variety of materials and techniques including, painted hanging canvases, drawings, beaded textiles, LED lighted elements, local Tabebuia tree branches, wrapped wire, oil and acrylic paint, dried and pressed flowers, paper cut-outs, collaged photographic prints, and diverse found objects. Her objective is the creation of a seductive experience, referencing notions of our unsettled landscapes, inspiring and mystical, embracing connections and contradictions, and expressing the fertile possibilities and hope that exists in-between.

About the Artist
Alette Simmons-Jiménez’s multi-disciplinary career extends over 49 years and comprises 30 solo exhibitions. Her first group show was within the juried Louisiana Craft Council Exhibition of 1975. On receiving her BFA at Newcomb College of Tulane University she relocated to the Dominican Republic and began a studio practice, culminating with the 1st Place Award in Video at the 1992 XVIII Biennial of Visual Arts. In 1993, she accepted a studio residency at Oolite Arts (then South Florida Arts Center) and relocated her practice to Miami. Simmons-Jiménez has exhibited in galleries, film festivals, and museums in Spain, France, Greece, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Brooklyn, New York, Michigan, Long Beach, Chicago, Mobile, Atlanta, Miami, Palm Beach, Key West, and Daytona. Notable awards are a Knight Arts Challenge Grant, a Miami Independent Artist Grant, a Florida Fellowship Grant, a Miami Beach Temporary Art in Public Places Commission, from Miami-Dade Co. a Community Grant and a Tourism Development Grant, and in Spain, the Xurau Mozu Prize at Optica Video Art Festival. Recently the artist was awarded residencies at Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani in Palma de Mallorca, and at Ifitry Résidence d’Artiste in Essaouira, Morocco.