"Multiples" by Owen F. Smith This August Whitney Art Works Portland, ME

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Krista Molnar-Smith
Visual Resources Librarian
University of Maine
5743 Lord Hall
Orono,ME 04469-5743
207-581-3258
molnar@maine.edu
 
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"Multiples" by Owen F. Smith
This August Whitney Art Works is pleased to present Multiples by Owen F. Smith. 
On view August 5 - 29. Opening reception Friday, August 7, from 5 - 8 pm.
 
For more information see: http://www.whitneyartworks.com/index.shtml
 
Owen F. Smith picks his way through nothing and everything."My work not only seeks to act in the gap between art and life, but it also explores the gaps between language and meaning and between process and product." For this show at Whitney Art
Works, Smith is displaying many series of art multiples created throughout a number of years. Sometimes the multiples document installations or events while others are based on original pieces. Other multiples serve to further the dialog between
exhibitions and viewers, like the most interactive packaged object to have ever been bought in a museum gift shop. Ultimately, these multiples require an unwinding sort of appreciation. Smith claims to be standing against the Western tradition of
"presence" which, until modern times and even beyond has occupied the pinnacle of artistic worth and achievement. "In shifting away from privileging of the object in my own work, I seek instead to open up the possibilities of enactment as a
manifestation of the desire to participate without fixed goals or definitive characteristics; not to "score more points" or "to create the ultimate expression of..." but to play, to reform, to associate, to create without a sought after
(traditionally required) predetermined end and in this way process becomes not just the means to the end but the core of what is important and valuable." Smith goes beyond a be-all, end-all fabulousness in art -the kind that resists change, life,
manipulation, and contemplation- towards a spiraling chain of interactions. In his work, the object is secondary to its journey as an asterisk on a gallery wall toward an ultimate transformation in the hands of it's owner.
 
Whitney Artworks was voted Portland's Best Gallery 2008 in the Portland Phoenix poll. Whitney Art Works is committed to serving as a commercial venue for the exhibition of works of both emerging and established contemporary artists. Exhibitions
feature the work of painters, photographers, printmakers, and sculptors. A wide spectrum of visual arts is exhibited, as well as a host of events including music, performance, and the presentation of the written word.
 
Whitney Art Works main gallery at 492 Congress Street.
 
Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 12-6 PM
 
For further information, please contact us at:
 
Whitney Art Works
492 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101
 
By E-mail: info@WhitneyArtWorks.com
 
By Phone: 207-780-0700
 
By fax: 888-745-4264 
 

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