Ross Simonini uses milk paint, an ancient organic medium to create his atmospheric postmodern quasi-frescos—with results that bend the arc of art history by injecting deep meaning into whimsical aesthetics.
Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly, August, 2023

Ross Simonini works across a wide range of media as a painter, writer, composer, and dialogist, and is deeply influenced by synergies between different fields of human expression – often involving his whole body to create visual art. In using all four limbs when working, the artist’s “hand” is both obscured and totalized: gestures, phrases and celebratory refrains are repeated over and over again to produce the many lines and fields in his paintings.
Ross Simonini’s recent exhibitions include: François Ghebaly, New York, US (2024, solo); suns.works, Zurich (2023, solo); SHRINE, Los Angeles, US (2023, solo); Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE (2017); Shoot the Lobster, LU (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Vielmetter, Los Angeles; François Ghebaly, Rome; and Altman Siegel, San Francisco. His first novel, The Book of Formation was published in 2018 by Melville House Books.
Ross Simonini
The Lets, 2023
Milk paint and graphite on muslin
99 x 91.5 cm


Ross Simonini
Chorus, 2024
Milk paint on muslin
48.3 x 131 cm
Julian Göthe (b. 1966, Berlin, Germany) works with drawing, sculpture, and installation. The artist and long-time set designer, explores the margins of design history, where bourgeois interiors can no longer be distinguished from movie sets and where furniture loses almost any use value and becomes instead an instrument of sublime torture, taking on a fantastic, surrealistic life of its own. Deploying trompe-l’oeil to great effect, Göthe renders expansive and illusory vistas of infrastructure and interior architecture out of black rope and metal.
Julian Göthe’s work has been exhibited at KölnSkuptur #11, DE (2024); Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, AT (2024); the Kunstverein München, DE (2023); suns.works, Zurich (2023 / 2021); mumok, Vienna, AT (2022); Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, DE (2022); Deborah Schamoni hosting CHARIM GALLERY, Munich, DE (2021); Singapore Biennale, SG (2011); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2011), DE; Migros Museum, Zurich (2010) and Kunsthalle Basel (2004). Since 2019, a monumental sculpture by Göthe is permanently installed at Berlin’s Berghain nightclub.


In my artistic work I deal with backgrounds that become the actual protagonists. Spaces influenced by decorative art and furniture design move ambivalently between elegance and danger, becoming the scene of things yet to happen.
Julian Göthe
I Know What You Did Last Summer 2, 2021
Pencil on cardboard
70 x 50 cm