Xaviera Simmons ’05 One of Three Female Artists Urged to Go Big. They Didn’t Hold Back.

In the show Brand New Heavies at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, three female artists answer the curators’ invitation “to do stuff they haven’t been able to do” elsewhere. For Bard MFA alumna Xaviera Simmons—whose practice includes photography, performance, and sculpture—the show was a chance to try a new medium, ceramics. She has built a 15-foot edifice of clay spheres fired at high heat; two video works are shown within, one didactic, the other brashly sensual.

Post Date: 04-12-2021