Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simon Aldridge


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The result was delete. signed,Rosguill talk 01:01, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Simon Aldridge

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I started to clean up all the PROMOCRUFT/namedropping in this autobiography and realized the claims were incredibly misleading. In the end there was almost nothing that stood up to verification. Most significantly, the shows that were implied to have taken place at PS1: "In 2003 German art critic Daniel Marzona, author of Minimal Art,[10] and curator at MoMA PS1 included Aldridge in ‘Framing Architecture’" and New Museum: "In 2002 then New Museum curator Anne Ellegood included Aldridge in ‘The Meaning of Style’" referenced in the original, in fact took place at Elga Wimmer and Brooklyn Front.

In his own CV he does list other exhibitions at PS1 and New Museum, but these are a stretch and/or unverifiable. At PS1 there was apparently there was a Mike Bidlo show called After Matisse/Picasso (https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4778) that is verifiable on the MoMA website. I found a reference to a different exhib with the same name that had 16 artists in it, but not Aldridge (https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4777). I found a press release saying that it was in the PS1 Cafe (https://kunstaspekte.art/event/after-matisse-picasso-2003-02?hl=en) and a Walter Robinson photo, showing a few of the works http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/robinson/robinson2-18-2.asp Aldridge's own website only shows a generic postcard (https://www.simonaldridge.com/new-blog/2016/9/13/after-matissepicasso-at-ps1-moma). The New Museum show was an open studios for the World Views cohort, after they obviously lost the ability to show in the WTC, because of 9/11.

The other significant exhibitions listed at the bottom are also suspect. The Mass Moca show had "hundreds" of artists in it. Sculpture Center was a benefit auction. The only one that comes close to holding up is the Grey Art Gallery show, which had 46 artists in it "Some 60 works by 46 artists span many styles—from realism to expressionism, abstraction to figuration—revealing how environmental concerns are depicted now"

Lastly, the AIA award is an Honorable Mention, and an Connecticut AIA award not a national AIA award. It seems that he is currently primarily active as an architect as Aldridge & Tanno Architects, Norfolk, CT. Theredproject (talk) 10:44, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete I cannot find any collections to satisfy WP:NARTIST, and I cannot fund even a paragraph of someone writing about him, to satisfy WP:GNG. There's a lot of exaggeration going on, as pointed out. --- Possibly (talk) 19:52, 27 March 2021 (UTC)


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