AUGUST 15th – September 12th
Tom Smith’s recent collages combine two or more found superhero images which possess special powers and defy physical boundaries.
Superheroes are enveloped out of solid, their bodies are impermeable, but by fragmenting and distorting them, they become fallible. The images are painstakingly sliced and reconfigured using various geometric patterns. As the new image emerges so do surprising effects, for example, hands may overlap in the same place or the color of a cape merges into the opposing image. The resulting collages depict two figures in a field of vibrating interference.
His three-dimensional forms are influenced by collage experiments. First, two autonomous figures are carved from a stack of foam sheets. Both components are painted then combined layer by layer. These beings collide and overlap as they become suspended in a physical act.
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