Art Encounters offers guided tours of Joslyn's collections and
special exhibitions on the third Thursday of each month, beginning at
10:30 am. Designed to appeal to all art lovers, from the well-seasoned
to the amateur, these monthly programs are a great way to learn about
art with others.
Art Encounters is free for most programs. For program details, please contact Joslyn's Director of
Adult Programs at (402) 661-3862 or by email.
Drawing on the art historical traditions of Pointilism and Geometric
Abstraction, Paul Anthony Smith creates "picotages," named for a pattern
printing technique that entails pressing textured blocks onto fabric.
Trained in ceramics, Smith uses sharp, wooden tools to stipple the
surfaces of photographs he has taken in New York City and Jamaica that
examine the African and Caribbean diasporas. Having emigrated to the
United States from his native Jamaica, Smith has long been captivated by
the concept of hybrid identity–often experienced acutely by those who
have migrated across borders–while mining the fraught intersections of
place, memory, and dislocation. By incising his images, Smith references
several cultural traditions, including African tribal masking and
scarification, in which the skin is cut, leaving indelible patterns on
the body. Just as these practices alter appearances, Smith's
interventions complicate the surfaces of his photographs and, at times,
even completely obscure portions of the images, calling into question
their authority as representations of "truth." A Riley CAP Gallery
exhibition.
Karen and Doug Riley Contemporary Artists Project
(CAP) Gallery exhibitions are supported by Douglas County, Catherine
& Terry Ferguson, Sara Foxley, and Polina & Bob Schlott.
What's
pictured: Paul Anthony Smith (Jamaican, born 1988), Untitled, 7 Women,
2019, unique picotage on inkjet print, colored pencil, spray paint on
museum board, 40 x 50 in., © Paul Anthony Smith. Courtesy the artist and
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
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