Opening Reception, Art Crawl: August 9 from 7 – 11 pm
Comprised of over 50 video loops and a score of original ambient music recordings, Convenience Stores, Space Flowers, and Other Spinning Objects is John Smith’s debut solo exhibition. Through its’ minimalistic found-object subject matter, it aims to evoke thoughts about what we consume, feelings about what we remember, and curiosity about what we don’t understand.
The process for creating these lo-fi loops was born out of a music video production directed by Smith in 2018 (for Teen Ravine’s “Hall of Horrors”).
Artist Statement:
Make the most out of the least.
About the Artist:
John Roxburgh Smith is a Hamilton-based artist, musician, and director working in the fields of video, audio art, light, interactive installation, and mixed-media 2D work. He is a co-founder of Hamilton’s monthly light & projection-art initiative OPTICKS.
He has received two Prism Prize nominations (2012 short-listed, 2017 long-listed) for his work with music videos, which have also been featured by The New York Times, Wired, Mashable, CBC, The Daily Mail, BBC, Metro UK, and broadcast internationally.
