Emily Joyce

Well Beth

2021

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 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 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...

Joel Swanson - Vinyl Letter Series My friend was cleaning out her studio one day and she gave me a stack of vinyl letter sheets, the commercial kind we use to label things. I started playing around with these sticky letters and realized I was more interested in remnants of language than the letter forms themselves. The French philosopher Jacques Derrida...

Physical space, punctuated by interior design and encased by architecture, draws attention to the people and things we surround ourselves with. As living bodies move past each other,...

McKenzie's paintings depict the built landscape, exploring changes in our architecture (what we build) for evidence of social, economic, and cultural shifts (why we build). Past seri...

Vinyl paint on canvas Signed and dated by the artist on the back Unique work

Vinyl paint on canvas Signed and dated by the artist on the back Unique work

Vinyl paint on canvas Signed and dated by the artist on the back Unique work

In this abstract painting in flashe and ink on canvas by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in soft blue, pale sage green, beige and ...

Vinyl paint on canvas Signed and by the artist on the back Unique work

In this square abstract painting in flashe on canvas, thin, carefully ordered stripes of color in gradient shades of soft hues, starting with pale shade of gray in the center to ligh...