Emily Joyce

Three Expanding Bodies or Marble Bowling Balls

2021

David B. Smith Gallery is pleased to present "RGBs and See I’m Okays," Los Angeles-based artist Emily Joyce’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Presented in the gallery’s proj...

David B. Smith Gallery is proud to present "Then Where Sun When There", a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Emily Joyce. In her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Joyce presents a new body of paintings that playfully synthesizes the languages of contemporary abstraction and mathematics. Reaching across centuries of human accomplishment to artists and thinkers who initially identified sacred geometric patterns and systems, inspiration for Joyce flips between the immediate and ancient. Artists such as Renaissance painter Piero della Francesa and American Modernist Georgia O’Keeffe lend their palate and soft-spoken spirituality to Joyce’s work, often leading to a humorous blend of logic and liveliness. Treated as both articulation of the soul and basis of concrete logic, geometry’s universality transcends culture and time. In modern times this principal is often understood through complex systems, some invisible and some manifested as conspicuously as the grid of a city. These everyday patterns, frequently muddled by human design...

David B Smith Gallery is proud to present What Is Time Stretching And When Would You Use It?, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with Chicago-based artist Cody Hudson...

Hudson’s signature abstract color-block style effortlessly transcends media, featuring evocative shapes and bold use of color. Taking visual cues from...

David B Smith Gallery is proud to present What Is Time Stretching And When Would You Use It?, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with Chicago-based artist Cody Hudson...

In his first solo exhibition with David B. Smith Gallery, Leon Benn floods the main gallery with large-scale paintings bounding with vibrant colors and hallucinatory observations of ...

While Rachelle Krieger hints at elements of landscape across her canvases spherical shapes for rocks and boulders, dynamic lines climbing up and across the canvas for trees—she is re...

While Rachelle Krieger hints at elements of landscape across her canvases spherical shapes for rocks and boulders, dynamic lines climbing up and across the canvas for trees—she is re...

While Rachelle Krieger hints at elements of landscape across her canvases spherical shapes for rocks and boulders, dynamic lines climbing up and across the canvas for trees—she is re...

Jongwang Lee's paintings challenge a dormant potential he believes lives within all humans. Inspired by Buddhist philosophies of space, Korean ideas of communication with the soul, a...

Jongwang Lee's paintings challenge a dormant potential he believes lives within all humans. Inspired by Buddhist philosophies of space, Korean ideas of communication with the soul, a...

Jongwang Lee's paintings challenge a dormant potential he believes lives within all humans. Inspired by Buddhist philosophies of space, Korean ideas of communication with the soul, a...