Michael E. Smith

Michael E. Smith translates the resourcefulness and decay of his inner city upbringing into art that is both thought-provoking and confounding. Frequently working with found objects or materials untypical of art practice, Smith disrupts our detachment from these abandoned fragments of an oversaturated material culture. By damaging, embellishing or sometimes simply presenting such objects, Smith encourages a confrontation with both their past and present. The human scale and deliberate starkness of the artworks can provoke reflection on the state of society today and the uncertainty we feel for its future.

In May, Smith will be undertake a residency with the Zabludowicz Collection in Sarvisalo, Finland. The result will be shown as a solo presentation alongside Smith's works already featured in the Collection.

Throughout the summer the Collection will present a series of four solo presentations by Adriano Costa, Michael E. Smith, Sam Falls and Samara Scott. Each artist will make new commissions to show alongside their works which already feature in the Collection.

Michael E. Smith (born 1977, Detroit, MI, USA)

Michael E. Smith
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