NYAB Event - Tom Smith “Heavenly Bodies”

Tom Smith “Heavenly Bodies”

ROX Gallery

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Tom Smith’s exhibition Heavenly Bodies reveals an electric palette of colors and textures. Smith’s techniques have evolved into a craft system that mimics digital or mechanical output, yet in person, viewers will be surprised to find that the work is completely hand constructed. When viewed closely, the paintings vibrate through opposing colors. One can make out tiny, gradated daubs of paint, or vivid strips of paper. From a distance, his paintings relax into a tapestry of melting forms.

The precision and skill of Smith’s work, and the startling playful effect they have on the viewer, is extended through an uncanny intersection of exuberant colors. These colors are related to themes of the heavens; tones borrowed from sunrises and space nebulae. Whodunit (2014), for example, interweaves amorphous, drippy hot pink, with striated lego-like blue shapes and fluorescent orange swirls that are softly encased by lime green brushstrokes.

After creating works in both Brazil and Iceland, the artist’s experience of these landscapes as otherworldly inflect Smith’s new series. Like a world envisioned during the space-age, Heavenly Bodies brings the viewer closer to something impossible to reach but wonderful to imagine: a pulsating utopia of otherworldly color, texture and form.

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• Painting
• Other

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