Steve Simmons creates works that transform solid materials into expressions of movement, balance, and vitality.  Working across bronze, steel, and painted metal, Simmons moves fluidly between abstraction, figuration, and forms drawn from the natural world.  His sculptures often begin as clay studies before evolving into carefully fabricated or cast works, allowing him to combine traditional sculptural craftsmanship with a distinctly contemporary sensibility.

 

Donald Kuspit, a leading U.S. Art Critic wrote, "Brilliantly complex, not to say self-contradictory, as only a creative genius can be, Steve Simmons is a master of geometrical abstraction, and of naturalistic realism."

 

Simmons sculptures are now exhibiting at the Venice Biennale.  The European Cultural Centre wrote: “ECC has long admired the work of Steve Simmons... His skill in giving material presence to the living world-whether through anatomically evocative animals or fluid, abstract metal forms-carries both a formal elegance and a poetic force.  Simmons’ ability to fuse formal rigor, emotional resonance, and material contemplation makes him an ideal contributor.  His presence in Venice will undoubtedly enrich the exhibition, creating moments of reflection, wonder, and connection that will linger long after the show closes.”

 

And George Berges, owner of Berges Gallery in NY where Simmons exhibits said, “Sculptor Steve Simmons works with elemental materials, steel, aluminum and clay, yet what emerges from his studio possesses a surprising vitality. Solid forms appear animated, as if the sculptures hold within them a latent current of movement. In this sense, Simmons stands within a lineage of modern sculptors who sought to liberate mass from stillness, recalling the spatial dynamism of artists such as Alexander Calder and Anthony Caro, where structure becomes a vessel for rhythm, tension and visual movementum. For Simmons, his forms suggest that motion is not merely depicted, but embedded within the material itself, as if steel and bronze remember the forces that shaped them.