Vapours 2019-ongoing
Works on Aluminum/Canvas/Cradled Wood Panels that filter perception through the lens of nature, and lived experience. Through my observations I recreate the ephemeral as seen through the bubbling vapourous forms of the circular light and color in the ever changing landscape. The wrapped shapes are bounded by curves that describe the continuous transitions of light and color, optimism and expansiveness, creation and destruction.
Kerrie Smith builds her abstract compositions with multiple layers of pattern, color, and an array of techniques and tools, as she seeks a balance between feral nature and its geometrical armature. With a mindful intention to capture not only the grandeur but also the unpredictability and potential for crisis in our environment, Smith’s work challenges conventions of organic and artificial beauty. Distilling a sense of place from encounters with the natural and industrial worlds -- and especially their intersections -- Smith evokes paradoxical, even contradictory emotions at the same time. Optimism and expansiveness, threat and distress, symmetry and entropy, creation and destruction.
Andi Campognone Director of MOAH (Museum of Art and History) Lancaster.
