Interwoven I

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David B. Smith
Interwoven I
2021

About the Item

What started as a humorous recognition by gallerist and artist that they share the same name led to broader questions: What is a self? What if each of us contains and shares many selves? What if other worlds existed where we can observe these selves taking actions we never made, almost did, or never even considered? Translating these questions through textile-based, artistic processes -- embroidery, soft sculpture, prints, tufted wall-hangings, weavings, and collages -- Smith features 'pairs' of artworks made with a similar recipe of concept, materials, and process, but with slightly different outcomes, setting up a dynamic of relationality, two worlds are mirrored but not quite. Smith begins with found or sampled photographic images from his life and collective digital consciousness, manipulates them in Photoshop and outputs them onto fabric. He then transforms the textiles into other-worldly forms, using an intuitive language inspired by art and craft techniques such as folding, cutting, sewing, collage, painting, embroidery, and stuffing. These acts are both deconstructive and constructive, making new worlds and stories from old ones – pointing to the possibility for re-invention, transformation, healing and renewal of ourselves, our social structures, and our relationship to the environment. Whether realized in a pair of embroidered textile masks or twinned plush figurative sculptures, these ongoing relationalities and placements of self can be both confounding and liberating. Throughout the exhibition Smith considers identifying factors that affect experience, considering the tendency to box ourselves into groups when perhaps we are something else, something more complex. In "Same but Different," Smith unravels histories like strands of yarn, only to reassemble, entwine, and explore the connective tissue comprising systems of identity, psychology, community, and the real and imagined digital/organic ecosystems that bind us.

Creator:
David B. Smith (American)
Creation Year:
2021
Dimensions:
Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)
Medium:
Wool,Yarn,Wood
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Denver, CO
Reference Number:
Seller: DBS 21141stDibs: LU1964210478462