Samantha Keely Smith’s Work

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这些仿佛藏在雾气后的柔和画作酝酿着巨大的涌动。它们的创作者是Samantha Keely Smith，一位出身于英格兰，现居纽约的女性艺术家。

Samantha Keely Smith认为在她的作品中即体现出人体自身本能与情感世界，又体现出人体外部美丽又不可控自然，同时两者间的碰撞调和也得到淋漓精致的展现。相交一定会有矛盾和冲突。自然赋予人类生命与灵魂，但是它们又具有摧毁力。

画作之上有一层半透明的油漆层，这一层物质让画作柔和烟蕴的笔触更加飘逸和难以描绘，仿佛位于梦境与现实之间。反反复复，持续不断。新的笔触掩盖了旧的笔触，过去的痕迹隐藏在新的创作之下，不过，它还是会被折射出来，画作表面体现出来的复杂性就在于它内涵的多维与材料的特性。

Alibi, 58” x 72”, oil and varnish on canvas, 2013.

Enfold, 58” x 72”, oil and varnish on canvas, 2013.

Gathering, 50” x 72”, oil and varnish on canvas, 2013.

Hearken, 36” x 40”, oil and varnish on canvas, 2013.

Loom, 36” x 40, oil and varnish on canvas, 2013.

Mutiny, 60” x 78”, oil and varnish on canvas, 2012.

Progeny, 48” x 78”, oil and varnish on canvas, 2013.

Shift, 60” x 72”, oil and varnish on canvas, 2012.

Stray, 48” x 64”, oil and varnish on canvas, 2014.

Surfacing, 30” x 48”, oil and varnish on canvas, 2013.

Tether, 64” x 72”, oil and varnish on canvas, 2010-2013.

Artist Statement

The artwork represents a striving to reconcile the inner world of instinct and emotions, with an external world that is both beautiful and hostile
in its natural grandeur. It is an attempt to map the place where these worlds intersect. The paintings are an investigation of the struggle
between a variety of human impulses: impulses that are as necessary as they are contradictory, and which therefore constantly undermine
our psychic and social coherence even as they endow us with vitality, soul, and life.
The translucent layers of paint, contrasting soft ethereal brushwork and harder edged sweeping gestures, echo this divergence and depict a
timeless place that hovers between dream and reality. The work is painted and partially destroyed many times before completion, resulting in
a complex surface that is informed by the limits of the materials themselves in conjunction with a response to the traces of the painting’s
former incarnations.

Bio

Born in Harlow, Essex, England, New York-based artist Samantha Keely Smith moved to the United States as a child with her family.
Smith started her College Education at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. She also attended the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, earning her BFA in Painting, with Honors.

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