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David Smyth
February 14 – March 7, 1981
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| Uptown Gallery |
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Installation view
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Plumb Line, 1980
acrylic on canvas
46 x 75 inches
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Breakdown, 1981
steel
83 ½ x 38 x 7 inches
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Mad Men Never Sleep, 1981
wood and steel
61 ½ x 36 x 7 inches
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For immediate release January 24, 1981
DAVID SMYTH
Opens February 14 through March 7
David Smyth uses architectural motifs, text, and figurative sculptures to present the dichotomy between the physical, perceivable world and the unseen reality of the psyche. His doors and windows suggest both the possibilities of movement from one realm into the other and the barriers and distance between these two worlds. Glass and the human figure - its absence and its mirror image - obliquely suggest the dimension beyond the looking glass.
The exhibition consists of three sculptures, a wall piece, and several graphite drawings.
Each of the three sculptures is a freestanding doorframe with swinging double doors through which the viewer is invited to pass. The steel doors of one sculpture contain the cutout of the artist's life-size profile and frosted glass with an etched poem. The doors of the other two sculptures are composed of randomly placed brightly colored wooden and metal struts.
In the wall piece, the text appears on rubber molding behind glass framed in wood. The pair of tall rectangular shapes here becomes windows.
Each graphite drawing contains a short text ranging from one word to directives from radio commercials and representational object, which contradicts or supports the "message."
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