{"id":31221,"date":"2018-04-03T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=31221"},"modified":"2018-04-03T06:53:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:53:19","slug":"troy-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/troy-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"troy simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/troy-simmons\/troysimmons\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31222\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/troysimmons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"5231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Concrete. Acrylic. Aluminum. <em>Whoa.<\/em> This is the grey &amp; rough \/ colorful &amp; perfect work of Miami based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troysimmonsstudio.com\/\">Troy Simmons. <\/a>With a background in architecture, the inspiration for this work makes complete sense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The inspiration behind his latest series evolved after a recent trip to Germany. He spent time exploring (Architect) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourism-bw.com\/Media\/Attraktionen\/Church-of-the-Transfiguration-of-Christ\">Rainer Disse\u2019s Feldberg Church, in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg<\/a> located in the southern part of the country. The postwar Brutalist Architecture is a fragmentation of Germany\u2019s traditional heritage mixed with simple modern geometric construction.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, of course, Troy with one of his pieces so you can see the scale of these very heavy, concrete beauties:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/troy-simmons\/troysimmons_scale\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31223\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31223\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/troysimmons_scale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/troysimmons_scale.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/troysimmons_scale-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concrete. Acrylic. Aluminum. Whoa. This is the grey &amp; rough \/ colorful &amp; perfect work of Miami based artist Troy Simmons. With a background in architecture, the inspiration for this work makes complete sense: The inspiration behind his latest series evolved after a recent trip to Germany. He spent time exploring (Architect) Rainer Disse\u2019s Feldberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[798,3,7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31238,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31221\/revisions\/31238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}