Roch Smith Figurative Sculptures
Canadian
Canadian sculptor P. Roch Smith received a BFA (Honours Sculpture) from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (ECIAD - 1997) and an MFA from York University (2003). A teacher as well as an artist, he has taught classes at the University of Waterloo, ECIAD and York University. He currently manages and operates the bronze and aluminum foundry at York University. Roch Smith has exhibited throughout Canada and in the US. P. Roch Smith’s work is included in private, corporate and museum collections.
P. Roch Smith’s work centres on the creativity of play, equilibrium and disequilibrium, and how memories are constructed and held in place - a geography of memory. Smith presents work in which the mass produced (plastic army figures – model kits - tools) are merged with the organic (tree branches, sisal twine and yarn). The figures are unified by bronze casting – fixing their hybridity in both a metaphoric and material manner. The relational nature of value is examined as the tiny scale of the bronze figures is the antithesis of monumentality usually associated with bronze as a sculptural material. While bronze casting normally speaks to permanence and the epic, the scale of these works creates a form of intimacy.
Play has been theorized as a liminal space – occupying both the real and the imagined simultaneously. It is within this topography that Smith tries to point to certain aspects of the human condition. Does replacing the guns on toys with branches change the essential meaning of the situation? Is it absurd? Can a small figure evoke a sympathetic response or reaction?
We manufacture toys with the intention of enabling children to play and the assumption is that this play is free, unencumbered and not contingent. Pulling back, however, it may be argued that the inherent structure of the toy itself echoes strictly adult concerns. Toys and play easily normalize certain ideas about one’s place in the greater scheme of things. Thankfully, children have also long subverted these rigid narrative structures. The altering of toys – drawing tattoos on a doll or shaving the “life-like” hair off of a GI Joe figure – is an aspirational act and speaks to claiming new narratives.
As a maker, Smith maintains this drive to construct and model objects with a sense of playfulness. Ideally, the works are at turns humorous but also manage to evoke a pathos associated with labour, work and the monumentality of mundane tasks. The figures carry weight in both a literal and figurative manner beyond what should be their actual capacity. The scale of the works are important for their small-scale for they invite both a broad and intimate viewing. Viewing the work one enters a space of inspection – of being a giant in a land that is off-kilter – witness to a precarious balance.to
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Artist: Roch Smith
Skirt 1/3 - small, surrealist, canoe, male, figurative, wood, bronze, sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Pierre Trudeau, a former Canadian Prime Minister and an avid outdoorsman and canoeist once said, “Paddle a hundred miles in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.”
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An accumulation of Experiences - figurative, bronze, outdoor sculpture
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The Contour of Balance - tall, figurative, bronze, steel, outdoor sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
As a sculptor, Roch Smith often interprets the big questions in life in imaginative and playful ways. The Toronto artist is known for his use of toys –familiar childhood images that ...
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2010s Contemporary Roch Smith Figurative Sculptures
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Kinship - surrealist, male, figurative, bronze outdoor furniture sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This surrealist, male, figurative, bronze outdoor furniture sculpture is by Roch Smith. Roch Smith’s engaging contemporary sculptures are desi...
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Dream Walker - surrealist, abstracted, figurative, male, bronze sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The evocative image of tree branches lying on the ground caught the imagination of sculptor Roch Smith. The Toronto artist re-envisioned the natural for...
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2010s Contemporary Roch Smith Figurative Sculptures
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Gunnel Bobbing 1/3 - surrealist, canoe, figurative, wood, bronze, sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This surrealist, canoe, figurative, wood, bronze, sculpture was created by Canadian artist Roch Smith.
It is an old game. Gunnel or ‘gunwale’ bobbing. Two people stand on the gunnel...
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2010s Contemporary Roch Smith Figurative Sculptures
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Greeting - surrealist, abstract, figurative, male, bronze sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This indoor figurative bronze sculpture is made by Canadian artist Roch Smith.
The imaginative sculptural work of Roch Smith often takes a playful approach to more serious themes. H...
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Downhill (Knight Ave) - tall, narrative, figurative, male, bronze sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This fun and somewhat whimsical sculpture recalls a cherished childhood memory for Roch Smith. The Toronto-based sculptor has hand-forged the bronze figure of a young boy on a bike balancing upright on its back wheel-popping a wheelie. He stands poised to ride off the top of a high, narrow steel track that ends in a loop reminiscent of the popular ‘Hot Wheels’ toy race car...
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2010s Contemporary Roch Smith Figurative Sculptures
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The Craftsman ed.1/2 - surrealist, canoe, figurative, wood, bronze, sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This bronze figurative tabletop sculpture by Roch Smith features a canoe.
Canadian sculptor Roch Smith has turned his attention to a cherished national and historic pastime—canoeing...
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Assist - surrealist, abstract, male, figurative, bronze tabletop sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This indoor figurative bronze sculpture comes from the imagination of Canadian artist Roch Smith.
The clever sculptures of Roch Smith are often inspired by images, forms and texture...
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2010s Contemporary Roch Smith Figurative Sculptures
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Pause 1/3 - small, surrealist, canoe, male, figurative, wood, bronze, sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The legendary canoeist and Canadian filmmaker Bill Mason once said, “First God made the canoe then he created a country to go with it.”
Sculptor Roch Smith has embraced the iconic i...
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House Hunter 1/3 - small, surrealist, figurative, bronze and wood sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Toronto artist Roch Smith often uses toy figures in clever and fun ways to convey cultural statements that go beyond child’s play. This tabletop figure is bending over, arms extended...
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2010s Contemporary Roch Smith Figurative Sculptures
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Daily Grind - contemporary, male, figurative, patinated bronze sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary, male, figurative, patinated bronze sculpture was created by artist P Roch Smith. A tower of cups stacked face to face and end to end creates a beautifully undulating formal column reminiscent of Brancusi's Endless Column. Precariously balanced on the shoulders of a small bronze figure...
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Enlarging Perspective - Surreal stretched male figure in bronze
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
It’s a striking image—a man, standing—his legs impossibly long, his arms spread wide affording him, perhaps a new and bigger perspective. Is this the intention behind Toronto artist ...
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2010s Contemporary Roch Smith Figurative Sculptures
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Whimsical Underpinning - surrealist, abstract, male figurative, bronze sculpture
By P. Roch Smith
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This indoor figurative bronze sculpture comes from the imagination of Canadian artist Roch Smith.
The idea for this bronze series of ‘tree men’ first came to Roch Smith in a daydrea...
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2010s Contemporary Roch Smith Figurative Sculptures
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