Assemblages
Elisabeth Munro Smith

GALLERY I

April 29 - May 24, 2009

Smith’s recent assemblages, like aerial-view maps, depict places from above. Where her earlier work explored the house-form, both as architecture in the landscape and as a metaphor for the self, her recent work has a broader scope: the configurations of the landscape itself. These assemblages describe the shifts and accommodations between the curved, ragged shapes and lines of nature – rivers, mountains, clouds and shores – and the marks that people make – houses, streets, plowed fields, jet-trails, longitude and latitude. Several large wall-hung works (Landlines and The Sea Voyage of Odysseus) are narratives in space, where bleached, curved vines play off a flat, painted backdrop. Smaller, vertical wall-pieces (Long river, Small river and Rivers to lake) describe a single element within the landscape.

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