Kimber Smith, Paintings 1970's

Kimber Smith, Paintings 1970's
Sep 11 - Oct 24, 2014
James Graham & Sons
32 East 67th Street
New York, NY 10065
Graham presents a selection of Kimber Smith’s paintings from the 1970s. Paintings from this period showcase the artist’s employment of a lexicon of forms and shapes. The seemingly casual feel to the paintings is illusory. They are in fact the product of a lifetime of planning and consideration. Every painting has a deep structure embedded with meaning drawn from Smith’s life. The lozenges are roses. The stacked bars are piano keys. The open triangles are cat ears. His approach successfully achieved that tension between looseness in handling and assuredness in composition that is so widely sought after by many contemporary abstractionists.