Archway Gallery presents
Sentient Meat
Sentient Meat
Featuring New Works on Paper by T. Smith
Exhibition January 5 - 31, 2019
Opening Reception
DATE: Saturday, January 5, 2019
TIME: 5 – 8 p.m.
Artist Talk: 6:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: 6:30 p.m.
Complimentary Valet Parking
Light Refreshments
After Party with the Artist
DATE: Saturday, January 5, 2019
TIME: 8 – 10 p.m.
Houston, Texas … Archway Gallery presents Sentient Meat, featuring new works on paper by T. Smith, on view January 5 – 31, 2019.
Known primarily as a painter of large-scale enigmatic oil on canvas works, T. Smith makes a marked departure in scale and media with Sentient Meat, while still maintaining the guiding principle of Smith's exploration of "Patternism"
Excerpt from the Artist's Statement:
The visual physical world is connected in subtle ways that can be easily overlooked. I work from my own photographs to discover the connections between seemingly disparate elements that combine to form a greater reality than their independent parts. Actual visual images are transformed into a third-generation idea from physical reality to camera to canvas.
As an artist, my interest is in the underlying associations formed by the repetition of shapes and lines from not only material forms but also those of transient matter such as shadows and reflections operating on the same visual plane in a realistic abstraction.
I consider myself a Patternist primarily interested in the affinities of emerging connections when taken as a whole. Patternism is reality viewed as a wave rather than a particle; it is the missing link between normal spatial perception and fractured spatial perception. Patternism is one link removed from normality, yet it is still very evident.
