Seattle
Buster Simpson’s recent, and long overdue, retrospective proved a major undertaking on a number of fronts. The challenge for curator Scott Lawrimore was to contain Simpson’s far-flung sensibility, but not taxidermize it. For the most part, he succeeded. Emerging from the avant-garde crucible of 1960s Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan-based ONCE Group, Simpson gravitated to Seattle in 1973 after co-founding the Pilchuck Glass School with Dale Chihuly…see the entire review in the print version of July/August’s Sculpture magazine.
