Adrienne Simmons

Adrienne Simmons, Chop it Like it's Hot, 2023, found fabric, machine and hand stitching, 8 x 8 inches (closed). Photography courtesy of the artist.

Adrienne Simmons

Adrienne Simmons is a visual artist and designer living and working in Houston, TX. She explores cartography and found materials to address themes of loneliness, loss of place, and memory. Drawn from real and imagined landscapes, she uses abstract imagery in an attempt to understand how spaces and places hold memory. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Houston (2024).

Artists’ books regularly appear in Simmons’s art practice as she addresses place and responds with physical narrative works.

Chop it Like it’s Hot

Simmons’s most recent artist’s book is textile-based and grounded in material as a means of navigation. Speaking about Chop it Like it’s Hot, Simmons stated:

This book came about after one of my many sessions of looking at satellite imagery and thinking about how people have altered the landscape. I was struck by how much of the upper-texan coastline has been shaped to fit the urges of humans. All of the imagery in the book is based off of these unnatural manmade forms, sewn from remnants of my own clothing, with the location’s GPS coordinates hand stitched alongside them. The book is sewn from scraps of my own clothing, using raw edges to further the idea of human interference.

On view at The Printing Museum through June 17, 2023.

To learn more about Simmons’s artwork, please visit her website or follow her on Instagram.