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Buster Simpson

Buster Simpson

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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, U.S.A.
Age
82 years
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Biography

Lewis Cole "Buster" Simpson (born March 29, 1942 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American sculptor and environmental artist based in Seattle, Washington.

Career

Lewis Cole Simpson was born in Saginaw, Michigan and raised in a nearby farming community. He became interested in art while attending junior college in Flint and attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, graduating in 1969 with a master in fine arts. After graduating, Simpson joined other artists at the Woodstock Festival in New York state, helping build play areas for festivalgoers.

Simpson caught the attention of glass artist Dale Chihuly in 1971 while giving a talk at the Rhode Island School of Design and invited him to join the new Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. Two years later, Simpson moved to Seattle at the suggestion of Polly Friedlander and began his work in "recycled art" at a studio in Pioneer Square. During the 1970s, Simpson created several pieces of public art along Post Alley near Pike Place Market, utilizing materials from dumpsters and thrift shops for Shared Clothesline and discarded bottles as scrap glass for 90 Pine Show and Counterparts. He also developed an alter ego, named "Woodman", used during street performances while scavenging for materials.

During the 1980s, Simpsons engaged in "agitprop" work, including dropping soft limestone blocks in the headwaters of the Hudson River that was dubbed by the media as "River Rolaids".

Simpson was later commissioned by institutions and governments across the United States and Canada to create public art to display in cities. Simpson was given his first career retrospective in 2013 at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, called Buster Simpson: Surveyor.

Works

  • Shared Clothesline (1978), Seattle
  • Lundeberg Derby Monument, Seattle
  • Seattle George Monument (1989), Seattle
  • Host Analog (1991), Portland, Oregon
  • Parable (2009), Seattle (at Rainier Beach station)

Awards

  • 2009 Public Art Network Award from Americans for the Arts

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