PRESS RELEASE from Artifact Gallery
for Lightwaves, a solo art exhibition by artist Laurel Smith
Artifact Gallery, 84 Orchard Street, NYC
August 27-September 14, 2014
"Artifact is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of prints by Laurel Smith.
A reception for the artist will be held on Sunday September 7, from 6 to 8pm.
Laurel Smith's new works are bold experiments in the structuring of space
without using the traditional methodologies. The analytic and the spiritual in
her ink on paper prints are kept in harmonious balance. In affect, the artist's
images are vestigial ones on the verge of the cusp between meltdown and
metamorphosis - a liminal state that resists identifiable locas. Transparency,
permeability and structured etherialization are the hallmarks of Smith's ink
on paper prints.
Intuition and chance are both used and referred to in Smith's compositions.
However, despite its digital origin, her images sweep over us with the energy
of natural order. All of these works are resolutely reverent in this respect:
each work assumes a rhythmic convergence of opposites. While each
image refers to the world of nature, it is resolutely living a life of pure, non-
objective form.The result is poetic visual imagination at its best in which
the activity of image making, in the artist's words captures "subtle realms of
feeling and experience."
each work assumes a rhythmic convergence of opposites. While each
image refers to the world of nature, it is resolutely living a life of pure, non-
objective form.The result is poetic visual imagination at its best in which
the activity of image making, in the artist's words captures "subtle realms of
feeling and experience."
Laurel Smith's works are intriguing as they are held in a state of suspension
between two conditions. Being removed from transcendence they allow the
viewer to access what may be considered as a perceptual aspect of
transcendence through the use of boundless infinities of color expanses.
Thus, this layered presence and anti-presence in each abstraction furnishes
the idea of an enduring present, the contrast between change and the
unchanging, between time and eternity."
Venice Biennale 2017
"My goal with art is to take people beyond the every day boundaries of life;
to experience the subtle dimensions of existence and at the same time to
have an awareness of the cosmos and the connection between the two.
Each work of art captures the flow of unique vibrational energies, at play
with overlapping dimensions. Time, space and existence are themes that
run through my creative process. Time travel, unraveling timelines, dimensions
of consciousness, galaxies of light and portals, all are themes which go beyond
time, space and existence to the infinite, unbounded realm.
How large a vision can you have? Creation energy unfolds unlimited
possibilities. When the boundaries of our minds disappear, creativity
explodes and we can operate in a universe of infinite potential. My personal
artistic structures hold keys of consciousness which bridge the finite to the
infinite. When I create, I work spontaneously in the moment and open fully
to the ever expanding flow of creation. I move beyond thought, beyond the
mind, beyond material existence. I am taken into a place of extreme bliss
and joy.
Can art transform you, your space, the environment and even the world?
I invite you to experience each artwork as a portal to the infinite, to take you
out of the personal structures of your every day life and into the truth and
beauty of transcended consciousness."
