Recent exhibitions this past year include A Promise Is A Cloud, Public Art Fund, New York; Structure & Absence, White Cube, London; The Anxiety
of Photography, Aspen Art
Museum, Aspen, Colorado; To What
Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario; and in 2010, Still,
Flat and Far, Institute
of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University
of Hawaii at Manoa, one
of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists
of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version
of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County
Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components
of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the
earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a
flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.