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PHILLIP K SMITH III : LIGHT AND SHADOW

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Channel: ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS · 2016 · Education

Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Music by Earman.

PHILLIP K SMITH III: Light + Shadow Works
Phillip K Smith III debuts a new sculptural series he calls "Light + Shadow Works" at the freshly opened downtown L.A. Royale Projects Contemporary Art space. Phillip K Smith III: Light + Shadow Works will be on view through January 23 at 432 S. Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 *(enter on Seaton between 4th and 5th St.). This exhibition marks Phillip K Smith III’s first solo show in Los Angeles.Smith III’s Light + Shadow Works are a culmination of his artistic focus over the last several years. Unlike some of his earlier hallmark techniques that employed technology and LED colored light, this series is marked by a distinct absence of those ingredients. Their pure white forms rely unabashedly upon the minimalist interplay of ambient light and shadow to create their visual impact. Smith III explains, “These works are about the subtlety of light across a surface…about tracing the shift, the step, the gradient of light that is contained and revealed within these forms. They are about presenting light in its most reduced state.”
Highlights of the exhibition include a subset of the Light + Shadow series called Faceted Discs. The Discs utilize the same formal tenets of the Light + Shadow works, with what art writer Jan Tumlir describes as “bear[ing] a unique topography of striating lines and folded, tilting planes, the entirety of it coated a consistent monochrome white, resolutely matte and opaque.” Tumlir goes on to articulate that “the Faceted Discs insistently remind us of this: in their alternation between sameness and difference, they allow us to see the eyes’ inherent limitations as well as the excess of what they produce on their own. Facets disappear and again reappear, and in the process perhaps remind us of sand dunes, leveling out when the sun is directly overhead and then regaining dimension as it continues its course across the sky.”

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PHILLIP K SMITH III : LIGHT AND SHADOW

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