Stuart Collection: Alexis Smith - Same Old Paradise and Snake Path

"Working from inside American popular culture, Alexis Smith makes direct use of our shared values, fears, and aspirations to create an art that is both extremely private and remarkably plain-speaking. This is no simple matter, for Smith's art is deeply rooted in the narrative forms of Conceptualism... Smith produces a profoundly moral art confronting social issues from a psychologically charged perspective. ...the artist is best understood in the Symbolist tradition, and it is that quality, served well by her dry wit, that elevates her unique constructions above most common narrative work. That she often draw her themes from Hollywood film culture and the pulp fiction universe only adds to the lure of legibility which underscores Smith's desire to include her reader-viewer in her compelling vision."--from foreword.

January 12 to February 24, 1991, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego.

Alexis Smith talks about the creation of her site-specific sculpture, Snake path, part of the Stuart Collection on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.