Amanda Smith, Sunset (Silver Maple), 2024, oil and acrylic on canvas, 54 x 72 inches.
THURSDAY, JULY 4 AUGUST 11
Yard Times by Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith, Sunset (Silver Maple), 2024, oil and acrylic on canvas, 54 x 72 inches.
HOURS
WED | 12 PM - 5 PM |
THU | 12 PM - 5 PM |
FRI | 12 PM - 5 PM |
SAT | 10 AM - 2 PM |
GALLERY
This exhibit is located in the 2nd Floor Galleries. Check out our other galleries for more exhibits.
LearnAmanda Smith’s work explores human interpretations and experiences in landscape. Yard Times follows her shifting awareness within landscape, turning her creative attention to her backyard, a category of place with which the artist has developed a new relationship during the Covid-19 pandemic. While global societies during this public health crisis came as close to a truly shared experience than ever before, most people’s physical worlds shrank considerably. Like many people, the artist spent a lot of time in her backyard over the last four years, and has come to appreciate how her activities there became a primary way to mark time and derive meaning in an era of pandemic, climate disaster, and political upheaval.
Amanda Smith earned an MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a BA from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. She has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in NY, the Rochester Art Center in MN, the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Box 13 ArtSpace in Houston, the International Quilt Museum, and Biblioteca Viva Egaña in Santiago, Chile. She has been a visiting artist at many universities including Temple University, Rome, Italy, the University of Kansas, and the University of South Carolina. Smith has been an artist-in-residence at Fljótstunga in Iceland, Arrowmont Pentaculum, Art 342 in Fort Collins, Monson Arts in Maine, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Est-Nord-Est in Quebec, Canada. She is a senior lecturer at Indiana University.
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