Vital
Margaret Smithers-Crump
Jun. 4 - Sept. 3, 2016
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Patron Preview Party : Fri. June 3, 2016
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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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