BURLAP 2B

BURLAP debuted in November 2010 and was a social comment on mainstream media culture, marketing and contemporary art’s relationship with nature.  Smith took large scale photography and internet images examining sex, fame, consumerism, and privacy.  Framed in seven candy colors, the images were stacked one in front of the other,  creating a sculptural object.  The vibrant image suite was then juxtaposed with a 25 foot, dying Copper Beech tree.  Ultimately, BURLAP was a meditation on the disconnection between the veneer of a rabid modern society and the natural world.

BURLAP 2B is about Smith’s own nature, mining similar themes from BURLAP but from the perspective of a developing adolescent in the 1980’s. Using the wood from the Copper Beech tree, the seven original colors and the ideas explored in BURLAP as parameters, Smith explores his memory of family, pop culture, nascent sexuality, art, politics, and AIDS through large scale drawings, wood carvings, installation and video.

BURLAP 2B is a celebration of the mysteries and complexities of growing up and was created as a foil to the colder, adult lens of BURLAP.

Stephen Scott Smith

Breeze Block Gallery

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Outside the gallery

The fan favorite of the show, the cat bed

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