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- First Name
- chris
- Last Name
- smith
- Age
- 35-55
- Which of the following best describe you?
- Illustrator, Painter, Graphic Designer
- How often are you the first among your friends to try something new?
- Very often
- What do you want people to know most about you?
- Chris Smith’s Road Work Ahead is an ongoing appropriated art series
that explores the tension between written and non-verbal communication, utility and fashion.
A graphic designer whose work includes fashion typography and design,
letterpress, collage, photography as well as traditional painting, Smith uses discarded road signs as his initial canvas. He then carefully overlays stylized outlines of fashion-forward female figures, often strategically stripping away the paint below to revea plywood patterns in the wood. The canvas may become skin or clothing… effectively merging and blurring the distinction between object andsubject.
Through his Road Work Ahead series, Smith explores communication,
interpretation and misinterpretation through a functional every day object – the road sign. A road sign may clearly spell out “Do Not Enter” or “Road Closed” yet is populated with women, brazenly, openly and often playfully disobeying the sign’s instructions. What was once clearly didactic is now meaningfully obscured. Through this series, Smith explores and shines a light upon what most men discover as adolescents: attempting to read ‘signs’ that women give is confounding at best. No means no. But, a glance over the shoulder? Come hither? Stay away? It’s unclear, yet clearly relatable to the male populace.
Road Work Ahead with its bright orange backgrounds and simple black and white contrasts is immensely enjoyable at first glance, and upon closer contemplation slyly considers the intersection of authority and free will.
- What is your website address?
- http://www.subtexture.com
- How did you hear about Brooklyn Art Project?
- from a friend
Subtexture's Blog
Roadwork Ahead closing party
It's time to take the construction signs down and open the road to the next show at HiFi bar,
Come by this Thursday and check out my show before it comes down.
2 for 1 drink specials till 8pm and then from 9-12 enjoy $4 pints of Victory Pilsner and $4 wild turkey drinks
David will be slinging the drinks, there's a pool table and buck hunter, a perfect way to end the day if you're
lucky to have a job. I'll be there from 7pm until ???
Thanks!
smitty
http://www.flickr.com/photos/subte… Continue
Posted on April 14, 2009 at 5:26pm —
Roadwork Ahead! New work by subtexture
Thanks to everyone for your support in the past year, 2009 is already off to a quick start!
I'm taking over Brooklyn this month, with my "Roadwork Ahead" series of paintings at 3 locations
Help me celebrate by joining me this Wed at the Mark Bar
They are extending their Economic Bailout Happy Hour until 9pm
(that means $3 for almost everything in the bar!!)
and be sure to stick around for XXXTreme Bingo at 10pm (yeah you heard me!)… Continue
Posted on January 9, 2009 at 2:28pm —
It's a Slotcar Fury Sat Oct 18th at East Coast Aliens
Hey Folks
Come on out to Greenpoint Sat night
should be a blast!
chrismitty
subtexture presents
SLOT CAR FURY!!
A JAM PACKED NIGHT OF DRINKING, DRIVING AND ROCKIN!!
SATURDAY OCTOBER 18TH $5
Races start at 9pm and continue until there's no one left alive!
Put your driving skills and pride on the line and test your nerves
in head to head rubber on plastic racing action on 3 blazing fast AFX electric slot-… Continue
Posted on October 16, 2008 at 11:44am —
streetshadows - Capturing the Light of Greenpoint"
Here's a slide show video of me installing my recent show at Gallery 3 in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn
Posted on February 28, 2008 at 9:34am — 1 Comment
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where do you find the road signs?
FANTASTIC WORK!!!