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Lucien Smith"Untitled (Scrap Metal 4415), " Lucien Smith Anti-War Sculpture2013
2013
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Lucien Smith (American, b. 1989)
Untitled (Scrap Metal 4415), 2013
Steel
35 x 35 x 15 inches
Provenance:
OHWOW, Los Angeles
Private Collection
Wright, 2015, Lot 139
One of the most highly-regarded contemporary artists, Lucien Smith is a name whose work people (and institutions) have been paying much attention to since he graduated Cooper Union. He produced readymade sculptures that the artist has secured and appropriated from the annual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky. Consisting of propane tanks, oil drums, automobile parts, and even a full-length truck, the metal objects have all been fired on by thousands of rounds of ammunition from handguns, assault rifles, fully automatic rifles, to a powerful Gatling Gun.
As opposed to some of Lucien Smith’s past popular series of work, where he uses paint to mimic rain or molding paste and enamel to create pies on canvas, he gets right to the point and uses real life objects that have been violated with horrifically potent instruments of death. Although we view and subsequently enjoy (especially during summer blockbuster movie season) this type of violence on screens and read about its tragic consequences in the news, few ever witness the results first hand and this re-contexualization of these spectacularly brutalized pieces directly confront the viewer’s complicity in their enjoyment of such entertainment and subsequently, the arguments set forth by gun control supporters.
- Creator:Lucien Smith (1989, American)
- Creation Year:2013
- Dimensions:Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 35 in (88.9 cm)Depth: 15 in (38.1 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU184129930842
Lucien Smith
Lucien Smith, referred to as an art world Wunderkind by the New York Times in 2013, received a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2011. Smith, who is based in New York, has widely exhibited in group and solo shows in the United States and abroad, including Skarstedt Gallery, Salon 94, OHWOW Gallery, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans and the American Academy in Rome. A Simple Twist of Fate is one of Smith’s acclaimed Rain paintings, created during the year Smith spent living and working in Hudson, New York. In this series of paintings, he applies paint to an unprimed canvas using a fire extinguisher, resulting in an atmospheric mist of yellow and blue paint droplets that echoes the pattern of rainfall and brings to mind the Impressionist artists' fascination with the interaction of rain and light. According to Smith, “The Rain paintings in his head serve as backdrops for situations between people and/or objects, very much like backdrops in a play. They become activated when something is placed in front of them; only then do their scale and size come into effect.”
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