Drawing a connection between the development of Modern Art and Living History, particularly as part of research she conducted on the Rockefeller family, who built the Museum of Modern Art and Colonial Williamsburg simultaneously, Smith traces alternate lineages of abstract art and social practices through common
everyday things of the past.
Not exact matches
Sometimes the best solutions are simple,
everyday things that are right under our noses and rooted in the
past ways
of doing
things.
, I am scratching my head
everyday on how to sell after building a good collection
of diverse creations the
past 3 years and after trying fairs, boutique, artisan markets, etc... My work is very versatile from up - cycling clothes, accessories and objects, jewelry, crafts, writing, home educational models, photography and mainly PAINTING on every
things!
The Studio Museum can be proud
of its yearly dedication to studio artists — as with Leslie Hewitt in 2008, «Scratch» in 2005, «Usable
Pasts» in 2010, «Evidence
of Accumulation» in 2011, «
Things in Themselves» in 2013, Everything,
Everyday» in 2014, or last year's «Material Histories.»
Some
of the artist's most powerful graphic work was made in 2001: around 60 large acrylics on paper were exercises in rhopography, studies
of the
everyday things — detritus, really — that she glimpsed walking in the streets or
past the railway yard near her home.