LAUREN DANA SMITH | DIGITAL OBJECTS SERIES

DIGITAL OBJECTS LAUREN DANA SMITH

TAOS NEW MEXICO

LAUREN DANA SMITH

Exploring rupture, repair and the climate of internal place, Lauren Dana Smith’s multidisciplinary practice represents the linkages between body, land, collective experience and memory.

Smith’s feminist approach tests the personal boundaries we choose and those we don't.

Smith’s work ultimately invites a path through our intimate interior spaces and along the exterior boundaries of physical form. At play is a steady tension between our inner landscapes and outer environments.

Smith’s work analyzes color, texture, climate and existential presence in a departure from the familiar iconography of traditional Southwestern art.

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DIGITAL OBJECT SERIES

The Digital Object series is realized through a multi-step process: an image of origin is created through digital painting and drawing.

Manipulations of form, saturation and light then transform the image into a unique dimensional composition.

Inspired by internal geometries and cellular landscapes, each object is familiar, yet unidentifiable.

TOC ACTIVATED 1 COLLAPSE 2 LIGHTSTORM 10 BURN THIS 13 BOX BREATH 19 HEARTLINED 33

TERRESTRIAL 41 CENTRAL COAST 45 HUM 52 CHAOS 55 YARDLIGHT 58 PINK VELVET 62 BIO 66

ACTIVATED Activated Digital Objects may be installed on monitors or viewed as projections, and may be accompanied by original sound composition.

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COLLAPSE

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: COLLAPSE 1, COLLAPSE 2, COLLAPSE 3, COLLAPSE 4

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: COLLAPSE 5, COLLAPSE 6

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COLLAPSE 7

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COLLAPSE 8

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COLLAPSE 4

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: COLLAPSE 9, COLLAPSE 10, COLLAPSE 11

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COLLAPSE 12

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LIGHTSTORM

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: LIGHTSTORM I, LIGHTSTORM II

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LIGHTSTORM VII

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BURN THIS

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: BURN THIS 3, BURN THIS 4, BURN THIS 5, BURN THIS 6

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BURN THIS 1

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BURN THIS 2

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BURN THIS 7

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BURN THIS 8

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BOX BREATH

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BOX BREATH 2

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BOX BREATH

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: BB2, BB3, BB4, BB5

BOX BREATH 6

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PREVIOUS PAGES: BB 7 & BB8 THIS PAGE: BB 9

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BB 10

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BB 11

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BB 12

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BB 13

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BB 14

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BB 15

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HEARTLINED

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HEARTLINED 1

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: HEARTLINED 2, HEARTLINED 3, HEARTLINED 4

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THE PHYSICS OF RISING

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: HEARTLINED 5, HEARTLINED 6, HEARTLINED 7, HEARTLINED 8

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WASH OVER ME

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HEARTLINED 9

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MIDLINE SHIFT

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TERRESTRIAL

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HEARTSPACER

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: TERRESTRIAL 1, TERRESTRIAL 2, TERRESTRIAL 3, TERRESTRIAL 4

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TERRESTRIAL 5

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CENTRAL COAST

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EXPECTANCE

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I’LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: CC1, CC2, CC3, CC4

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PREVIOUS PAGES: CENTRAL COAST 5 & 6 THIS PAGE CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: CC7, CC8, CC3, CC9

HUM

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HUM

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: HUM 1, HUM 2, HUM 3, HUM 4

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CHAOS 55

CHAOS 1

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CHAOS 2

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YARDLIGHT

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HONDO

ESPANOLA

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YARDLIGHT

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I WAITED

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PINK VELVET

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PINK VELVET

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PREVIOUS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: PV1 PV2, PV3, PV4 THIS PAGE: CARRY ME

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Lauren Dana Smith (b. 1979, Philadelphia) is a multidisciplinary artist living in Taos, New Mexico. Smith’s practice utilizes sculptural, digital, video and sound compositions to process land and body politics through a feminist lens. Smith studied painting and received her B.A. from Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, New York. Smith is a faculty member at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where she received her M.P.S. Smith’s work has been exhibited regionally and nationally, with group shows in New York, Denver, Texas and New Mexico. In 2021 she received a SURFACE: Emerging Artist of New Mexico award from the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque. She has been recognized nationally for her digital art series. Her work has appeared in publications such as Hyperallergic, Art & Cake LA, New Visionary Magazine, ARTWALK magazine and the Santa Fe Literary Review. Smith is a Co-Founder of the Taos Abstract Artist Collective.

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