.SimmonsLaurie, a fixture of the downtown New York City art scene, reflects on the Tribeca Film Festival’s 20-year history.
hopped on the New York City subway and traveled from her studio in lower Manhattan deep into Queens. She was on a mission: she’d been tapped by the Tribeca Film Festival to create the official trophy for the filmmakers winning awards that year, and had dreamed up quite a statue—an old-school, 16mm film camera on a pair of human legs.
Simmons, who has been a fixture in the downtown art scene for decades and whose works, films, and photographs , was waxing poetic on this particular memory at the close of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Chanel, the official sponsor of the event, had requested she and other New York artists including Sophie Matisse and Sun Tek Chung, submit original sketches to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the festival, which began in 2001—and to celebrate a return tofollowing the Covid-19 pandemic.
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