Says the artist, "I work in and out of representation to find a visual lexicon where the weight of an archetype gives way. In her attempt to achieve an "elegant vulgarity," she encapsulates moments that define our mortality in unanticipated ways oftentimes toeing the delicate line between erotic and macabre tendencies that give way to life, and ultimately death. Smythe captures conflicting extremes within her compositions: intimacy and brutality, beauty and ugliness, or the lewd and tender. Memories relating to youth, the familial, cyclical states, and chaos are made manifest through gesture and a fusion of contradictions. Working within the tradition of the monument, the exhibition presents a theatrical choreography. Deriving inspiration from James Arthur Baldwin's theory of dishonest sentimentality, the artist explores the process of recounted memory – as well as emotion's tendency to obfuscate motive. Mark Moore Gallery proudly presents "A Swollen Light Behind The Eye," an inaugural solo exhibition in Gallery Two by contemporary ceramicist and sculpture artist, Meghan Smythe.
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