Smith’s show will call upon three separate bodies of her large-scale photographs: Istanbul Riding portrays images of staircases on either side of Hagia Sofia, as well as images of architectural details taken from inside the Topkapi Palace; Guest House details a house on stilts Seton’s father, the estimable architect and sculptor Tony Smith, built in the ‘50s on Long Island Sound; and Snow Trees, which is at once abstract and vividly familiar, a diptych-series shot directly from Smith’s apartment/studio window in New York.
Says Smith: "I’ve always been working on different aspects of the same subject, which is how architecture and environment affect people psychologically. My interest is to invite people to be more conscious of their architectural environment by decoding its symbols."
Color of Mayan Temple
Chromogenic print face-mounted to nonreflective Plexiglass with aluminum brace
72 x 53 inches
Spring Snow (3)
Chromogenic print face-mounted to nonreflective Plexiglass with aluminum brace
72 x 98 inches
Indivisible
Chromogenic print face-mounted to nonreflective Plexiglass with aluminum brace
72 x 53 inches
Guest House Right Room
Chromogenic print face-mounted to nonreflective Plexiglass with aluminum brace
48 x 48 inches
Empire
Chromogenic print face-mounted to nonreflective Plexiglass with aluminum brace
72 x 53 inches
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