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Michael E. Smith

Untitled

Maker

Michael E. Smith (American, b. 1977)

Title

Untitled

Year

2016

Medium

  • Door,
  • bird,
  • plastic

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Door,
  • bird,
  • plastic

Dimensions

198.1 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm (78 x 7 x 2 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2016.91

Type

  • Sculpture

Exhibition History

Stranger Than Paradise
Jul 14, 2017 – Feb 25, 2018

Label copy

In Untitled, a used door (from a house in Providence) has been cut into a shape that evokes a cloud or a landscape or seascape, with a pigeon encased in plastic completing one of the door’s contours. Smith’s ongoing practice combines widely varied objects and materials, enabling radically new ways to understand worldly phenomena. This sculpture encourages us to address its individual components, while the assemblage as a whole prompts consideration of our increasingly complicated relationships to natural and built environments, if not objects themselves.

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Michael E. Smith (American, b. 1977)
Untitled, 2016
Door, bird, plastic
198.1 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm (78 x 7 x 2 inches)
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 2016.91

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