Visiting Artist Exhibit: Thaddeus Smith
The Art Program is hosting a guest exhibit featuring work by adjunct art professor Thaddeus Smith. Titled “In Exile: Lost Dogs and Tortured Timber,” works in the exhibit juxtapose landscapes and nature against domesticity and technology.
| When |
Jan 07, 2010 09:00 AM
to Jan 26, 2010 04:00 PM |
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| Where | Quigley Gallery |
| Contact Name | Al Caniff |
| Contact Phone | (970) 943-3083 |
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According to Smith, his exhibit “raises questions about how we identify ourselves with the human condition and how technology and our own domesticity has shaped our lives.”
“Lost Dogs” is a series of photographs that uses repetitive images of dogs paired with images of landscapes from the Gunnison Valley and Utah, or with deer carcasses. The pictures feature Smith’s dog, Espera, and the series was influenced by her 10-day disappearance in the wilderness. Smith described the images as “complex exchanges that are not only about consumption and survival, but also about connection.”
The multimedia sculpture series, “Tortured Timber,” displays wood in various forms that have “digital eyes” thanks to monitors inconspicuously incorporated into each piece. The pieces are arranged in front of televisions playing video of different scenarios related to the wood in its proximity, such as fire and water. The combination of nature and technology, Smith said, provides “shock value and humor.”
“It is my hope that through this experience, viewers will think about their own relationship to nature, the landscape and the media within this exhibit and what it represents to them,” Smith said.
The exhibit is in the Quigley Gallery and will run through Jan. 26. The opening/artist convocation will be held at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21 at Quigley Hall.
