Light + Shadow Works by Phillip K Smith III

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艺术家Phillip K Smith III最广为人知的作品是Lucid Stead——一座伫立在沙漠中的带镜面的小木屋。此次他的新作品Light + Shadow Works最近在洛杉矶Royale Projects当代艺术画廊开展。这一系列作品展示了Smith III过去几年关注的焦点。与早前他标志性的运用技术和LED彩灯打造的作品不同，Light + Shadow works全然不存在这些成分。这些纯白色的体量完全依赖极简主义的光影来营造自己的视觉印象。用艺术家自己的话说：“这些作品是关于光略过表面时营造的微妙印象…是在形体中追踪光转换、转折和斜度的变化；是关于在最原始状态下呈现出的光。”

Phillip K Smith III, the artist most widely known for his glowing, mirrored homestead cabin installation in the Joshua Tree desert, Lucid Stead, will debut a new sculptural series he calls Light + Shadow Works at the recently opened Royale Projects contemporary art gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. This exhibition marks Phillip K Smith III’s first solo show in Los Angeles.  The show opened on November 21st and has been extended to run through January 23rd.

Smith III’s Light + Shadow series is a culmination of his artistic focus over the last several years. Unlike some of Smith III’s earlier hallmark techniques that employed technology and LED colored light, the Light + Shadow works are marked by a distinct absence of those ingredients. Their pure white forms rely unabashedly upon the minimalist interplay of ambient light and shadows to create their visual impact. Smith III describes, “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.”

展品占满了画廊的三个展厅，从前至后，展厅内作品的规模和色彩不尽相同。最前面的展厅内布置着三个名为“复杂曲面：Discs 1-3”的直径8英尺的全白色碳纤维雕塑。根据参观者所处位置的移动，作品的形态从一个完美的圆形变换到到一个光影作用下的连续曲面。Smith III说：“我十分有兴趣让大脑处于模糊的状态…介于2维和3维之间，介于黑暗和光明之间，介于压缩和膨胀之间，介于已知与未知之间。”

Encompassing all three salons at the gallery, the exhibition shifts in scale and color from front to back.  The large front salon showcases three new highly three-dimensional works that are 8’ in diameter, all white, carbon fiber, and titled “Complex Surface: Discs 1-3.”  Depending on your position in the gallery, these works shift from a hovering perfect circle to a bent and curved continuous surface of light and shadow.  On these three discs, Smith III states: “I’m interested in allowing the brain to exist in blurred states…between 2 and 3 dimensions, between darkness and light, between compression and expansion, between knowing and not knowing.”

展览中另一件重要展品是被称为“Faceted Discs”的系列作品。过去十年，Phillip K Smith III创作了100个各不相同作品，每年制作十个，今年是第十年。这些Discs在创作中运用同一个原则，正如评论家Jan Tumlir所说：“有特有的细纹、折痕和斜面，外表是一贯的白色、粗糙和不透明。” 此次Discs #11-20是第一个与公众见面。

Additional highlights of the exhibition include a subset of the Light + Shadow series called Faceted Discs. Phillip K Smith III has dedicated himself to design 100 unique Faceted Disc creations over a decade, debuting ten new pieces in the series each successive year. 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.” The first ten Faceted Discs were released in 2014, where they were exhibited during Smith III’s prestigious spring 2015 Artist Residency at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Discs #11-20 will make their first public appearance for the November Royale Projects exhibition in Los Angeles.

Jan Tumlir在阐述Light + Shadow Works时提到了沙漠和光——这两样与Smith的作品密不可分的元素，他说：“这些作品让我们看到‘眼睛’固有的局限性，以及它们自身制造的多余的东西。面的消失和再现，让我们联想到沙丘：在太阳位于正上方时它消失不见了，但随着太阳划过天空，它慢慢地重新获得了自身的维度。”
Jan Tumlir continues by articulating the effect of the Light + Shadow Works while referencing the desert and its light, two elemental components close to Smith’s practice: …”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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Gallery Name: royale projects : contemporary art | LA
Address: (LA Location) 432 S. Alameda St. Los Angeles, CA 90013 (*entry on Seaton St.)
Telephone: 213-595-5182
Gallery Owners: Rick Royale & Paige Moss
Gallery Website: www.royaleprojects.com
Featured Artist: Phillip K Smith III
Artist Website: www.PKS3.com
Show Dates: November 21, 2015 – January 23, 2016
Gallery Hours: Thurs – Sat (11am – 5pm)

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