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Simmons exhibits internationally and has her work in numerous public and private collections, including The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Smithsonian Institution, The New York Public Library Department of Prints and Drawings, and the Washington Hebrew Congregation. Private collectors include The Packard Foundation, Robin Williams, Pete Seeger, Eduardo Galeano, Roselyn Swig, Gerald Davis and Rosalie Sorrells. She has exhibited, and has works in collections in Russia, Poland, Japan, Ireland, Canada, Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, Australia, and all across the United States. State Gary Kamiya, of Image Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle: "An artist who strives to address the problems of his or her time faces a tricky aesthetic balancing act. Explicitly political art often has all the depth and aubtlety of a megaphone exhortation. But at its' best, engaged art stirs both the soul and the mind, revealing the ineluctible connection between the world of the streets and the universe of the spirit, magicallyl embodying Keats' dictum that beauty is truth and truth beauty. Elly Simmons' work achieves this rare feat. It is an extraordinary blend of political passion; and artistic complexity. Her paintings wed medium and message perfectly, outrage never collapses into propaganda, nor does her work's dreamlike vitality, its' formal elegance, dilute its' fervor."

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