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Elias Sime: Tightrope Now on View at the Wellin Museum of Art

by Wellin Museum of Art September 23, 2019September 23, 2019

Featuring over 25 works from the past decade, Tightrope explores the full breadth of Elias Sime’s practice.

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Love and Craftsmanship in the Relationship Between Machines and Humanity

by Seph Rodney September 17, 2019September 18, 2019

A conversation with the artist Elias Sime, whose work interrogating our bond with electronic media is now on view at the Wellin Museum.

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Mosaics of Motherboards, Keyboards, and Wire

by John Yau June 16, 2019June 14, 2019

Ethiopian artist Elias Sime makes wall sculptures from castoff computer parts that evoke the toxic dumping of these materials around the world.

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Art That’s Too Lovely to Make Its Politics Convincing

by Seph Rodney May 12, 2017

Elias Sime’s work at James Cohan gallery reclaims and transforms e-waste into art. While an act of conscience, I can’t help but think that the work is swamped by its own aesthetics.

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Finding Our Way Amid the Modern Fatalism of Circuit Boards

by Seph Rodney October 14, 2015October 14, 2015

Elias Sime’s installations at James Cohan Gallery are visually impressive, but more than that, they are brilliant in their capacity to accomplish several things at once.

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