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Charles Simonds is an American artist known for creating intricate architectural miniatures and site-specific installations that merge sculpture, architecture, and landscape intervention. Working primarily in clay, sand, and found materials since the 1970s, he constructs elaborate dwelling structures at an intimate scale, often embedded within urban and natural environments. His practice treats these micro-architectures as archaeological artifacts, blurring distinctions between art object and archaeological site. The work engages with notions of scale, habitation, and the relationship between human intervention and landscape.

New York, NY, USA