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Six Sides

A solo exhibition at Young World, Detroit

June -July 2015

 

 

Counterpoints

Exhibition at Malraux's Place, NYC

Dec 2014- Feb 2015

 

I as in I

Project developed for Copenhagen Art Week 2014

A new pattern for the Metro system, and a 12-person performance with dancing I's on a field, viewed from the train.

August-September 2014

 

Intermezzo

Commission for Socrates Sculpture Park, as part of the Emerging Artist Fellowshop 2013 program.

September 2013 - March 2014

 

Five propositions for the tourist

Solo exhibition at Space in Between, London

March-April 2013

 

The Nihilist's Spa

Exhibition with Ernst Fischer at Brett Wesley Gallery, Las Vegas.

Feb-March 2013

 

The I is missing but I feel you

Exhibited at The Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York, as part of the Columbia University 2012 MFA Thesis exhibition.

     

selectedworksfromtherestof2012

Images, video and texts from various series, projects and exhibitions over the course of 2012.

 

I gave you everything, I withheld nothing

Installation exhibitied at Industrial Aesthetics, a survey exhibition at Hunter College's Times Square gallery, New York City.

     

Worn once, no tears, no stains

What could be the problem with revealing everything always?

It wouldn't leave anything for us to do.

This proposition and hypothetical answer was the starting point for a solo exhibition at Space In Between, London.

     

Studio works 2011

A selection of studio works from late 2010 and early 2011.

Getting drunk through the feet, balancing triangles, lots of printed gradients, and white white rooms.

 

Better World

A solo exhibition in Glasgow as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010.

Plaster sculptures Las Vegas-style, black mirrors and gold leaf text. Awkward attempts at romance clash with slick, sexy nihilism.

     

"Into The Desert"

A collaborative exhibition with Alex Gross at Berlin's Infernoesque project room.

Into the Desert was based on a period of collaborative drawing while reminiscing about our USA road trip exhibition series. From these drawings we made a series of glass sculptures and a fuzzy white Swedish modernist habitat to place them in.

     

2010 assorted works

A collection of artwork from 2010 that was made for group exhibitions or just never quite made it out of my studio.

 

"Pure Love"

A solo exhibition at Space-In-Between, a new artist-run exhibition space in London.

This was an opportunity to present a body of new work - lightboxes, revolving mirrors, and hand-woven shagpile rug sculptures.

Sandy Smith Pure Love
     

Assorted works 2009

2009 was a busy year, so here is a selection of works made for more minor exhibitions, along with photographs of sculptures and drawings from the studio.

 

Road trip USA

Four Solo exhibitions and an 11 week road trip across the USA.

Click the image opposite to see the sub-site created to document this sprawling residency / exhibition tour, conceived and executed in collaboration with Alex Gross.

Sandy Smith Road Trip USA
     
Sandy Smith Catalyst Arts

Group exhibitions / assorted works 2008

An assorted collection of works made for group exhibitions during 2008.

 

"Sapere Aude"

Solo exhibition (in collaboration with Andrew Cattanach) at SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow

A collaborative examination of the concept of enlightenment, with knobs on.

     

"All the time I was making this I was thinking of you"

Shown at Studio Project 9 at Market Gallery, Glasgow

Studio Project 9 was a four week residency at Market Gallery with a 9 day exhibition at the end. Over the four weeks I gradually made this flowering forest and centre piece sculpture.

     
Assorted artwork 2007

A miscellaneous assortment of artworks made for group exhibitions and suchlike during 2007.

 

Assorted work 2006 and earlier

This category brings together work made during a residency at the National Workshop for the Arts & Crafts in Copenhagen, Denmark.

     

Computer Installations

This is a large series of works running from 2005 into 2006. The works all used a huge stock of redundant but working computers, gathered over the year. The series ended with an exhibition at Edinburgh's Embassy Gallery.

There are 6 different works within this group.

Click the image for the broadband version, or click here for the low-fi page.

     

Google Image Search

This artwork used Google as a tool to highlight our associations between word and image. Working from a list of around 70 words, Google's image search feature was used to find the 20 most viewed images for each word, which were appropriated to create 60 second slide show-style videos.

This project was initially presented as a video installation for an exhibition in September/October 2004 at the G2 Gallery, Chicago

     

Blank Sign project

I started the Blank Sign as a performance in February 2003. The premise was simple: holding a large blank placard, I stood on Glasgow's busiest street for a regular period of time (12-5) every day for a week. The artwork was a diary, which detailed what people had thought the sign was about.

Since this initial performance, I have repeated the work, and taken it do different cities (and countries). The method of presentation has also varied, and encompasses book, sound, video and photography.

All images, artworks & text © Sandy Smith 2005-2011