CHRIS SMITH

Roadwork Ahead
June 18 - Aug 29

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, June 18th
6:30 - 9:30 pm

Chris Smith's latest work entitled Roadwork Ahead is an ongoing appropriated art series that explores the tension between written and non-verbal communication, utility and fashion. Through his Roadwork Ahead series, Smith explores communication, interpretation, and misinterpretation through a functional every day object – the road sign. A road sign may clearly spell out “Do Not Enter” or “Road Closed” yet is populated with women, brazenly, openly and often playfully disobeying the sign’s instructions. What was once clearly didactic is now meaningfully obscured. Through this series, Smith explores and shines a light upon what most men discover as adolescents: attempting to read ‘signs’ that women give is confounding at best.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Pipeline Brand Liquors for sponsoring the refreshments (www.pipelinebrands.com)

Lamb & Jaffy for sponsoring the grub! (www.lambandjaffy.com)

BIOGRAPHY: 

Chris Smith, aka “subtexture” (www.subtexture.com), is a Brooklyn-based pop-media designer who specializes in developing visual solutions for clients in the fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle industries. He is also an accomplished illustrator and visual artist who utilizes a wide range of media in his work — including: collage, painting, letterpress printing, and digital imaging.