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Vital
​Margaret Smithers-Crump
​Jun. 4 - Sept. 3, 2016

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Patron Preview Party : Fri. June 3, 2016 
Vital by Margaret Smithers-Crump is an exhibition that explores water and the ocean as both the source and resource for all living beings. With its inherent associations to life, death, and renewal, water has profoundly influenced the artwork of the artist, who grew up on her family’s island in Ontario, Canada and subsequently lived in Guam as a young adult. Vital is an exhibition of installations and paintings on Plexiglas. Painted and drawn on both the front and reverse sides of Plexiglas sheets, Margaret Smithers-Crump’s luminous and translucent surfaces depict water as both tranquil and threatening. The artist’s three-dimensional artworks expand upon these approaches to water, providing a very different experience. Utilizing wall, ceiling, and floor, these installations are made with hundreds of hand cut, shaped, and painted Plexiglas forms that are chemically bonded together. Often evoking vast ecosystems and life forms such as coral, kelp, plankton, and algae, these glass-like artworks also underscore the fragile state of all living things and the vital necessity of water on our planet.

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Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
6815 Cypresswood Drive
Spring, TX 77379
Phone: 281.376.6322
Fax: 281.376.2944

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Free admission, always.
$5 suggested donation for adult visitors
10am - 5pm Tuesday - Saturday
CLOSED Sunday & Monday

Closed on Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, 
Christmas, and New Year's Day

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The Cypress Creek Fine Art Association (d.b.a. the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. All donations are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. 
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