David Smith: Gaussian Blur

30 January - 23 March 2025
Walker, Hazy Strand, Dawn
Walker, Hazy Strand, Dawn

This new body of work reflects an internal picture of lived, remembered, and imagined experience. Influenced by zen, ink painting, abstraction, and photography, these are records of unfixed and fluid experience.  These ideas appear through the dissolving qualities in the paint surface, the represented image shifts and begins to unfix itself.  Each painting looks for the animation, space, energy, and decay that vibrates beneath the world around us and our perception of it. Recently, Smith began to expand his work to include figures within hazy, indeterminate spaces.