RICH SIMMONS - - Viewing Room - Taglialatella Galleries Viewing Room

Taglialatella Galleries is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of the summer with Rich Simmons, the London-based Contemporary Urban-Pop artist exploring the intersections of visual culture from comic books to the Renaissance, to contemporary fashion, sexuality and beyond. Simmons travelled to the US to debut his first solo show in New York City since 2015, which opened Thursday, June 23rd in Taglialatella’s flagship Chelsea location.

It shouldn't matter who a person is, who they love, what they believe or where they come from, being a hero transcends all that.

-Rich Simmons

Representative of his multi-faceted focus, Rich Simmons appropriately opened his exhibition in the midst of the much anticipated NFT.NYC week, just days prior to the world-famous New York City Pride March. Simmons has never shied away from exploring and challenging social constructs with his art, notably creating the now-famous image of Batman Kissing Superman in 2014, often referred to as “Superhero Lovers”. Quoted in the Huffington post in 2016, “I wanted to create a dialogue about equality by taking the two most alpha male superheroes and placing them in this embrace.” explained Simmons. Going on to ask: “If you were in need of being saved from something, would it matter if the person who could be your hero was gay or not?”

Continuing his exploration, Simmons tackled the ever-expansive NFT space in 2022 by launching his first NFT collection of 3,333 unique variations called Reflections. The collection sold out immediately, amassing over 1.7 million dollars of sales in just one week of trading. While Reflections remains Simmons’ only NFT release to date, Taglialatella Galleries has partnered with SuperRare to release an entirely unique, animated, 1/1 Reflections NFT in June as part of the much-anticipated Rich Simmons exhibition. The NFT is on view at Taglialatella Galleries, framed by Lago.

The solo exhibition features new, original paintings on canvas, works on paper, and in celebration of Pride, Simmons passed out free, hand-signed limited edition prints of the iconic Superhero Lovers to the first hundred guests to enter Taglialatella Galleries.

All of Simmons' unique artworks are created using hand cut stencils, including his digital works as a signature element to his process as an Artist. On the day of the opening with spray paint in hand, Rich Simmons stenciled his signature on the Taglialatella walls as a seal of approval for his debut in NYC!

The solo exhibition features new, original paintings on canvas, works on paper, and in celebration of Pride, Simmons passed out free, hand-signed limited edition prints of the iconic Superhero Lovers to the first hundred guests to enter Taglialatella Galleries!