J.Scott Smith / Lucas Reiner
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J. Scott Smith
Born
in Baltimore in 1955, J. Scott Smith studied at the Maryland Institute College
of Art before relocating to Santa Monica, where he has lived and worked since
the late 1970s. In his early career, Smith concentrated exclusively on the rigorous
discipline of architectural photography with commissions from Frank Gehry and
other internationally acclaimed architects.
The deliberative practice of
creating architectural portraits with a large format view camera influenced his
fine art photography, particularly the current series, 29 Palms.
Smith’s photographs have shown in the United States and
Europe, including exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Centre
Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Salon International de l'Architecture in
Milan.
About the artwork in the show: "29 Palms"
29 Palms is a mirage of sorts, a
photographic re-imagining of the original oasis of twenty-nine native palms
around which the desert city of the same name developed. Washingtonia
filifera, the Golden State’s only
indigenous palm, is featured in this collection alongside a remarkable variety
of geographic transplants that flourish in Southern California’s amenable
climate. Captured with a large format view camera on 8 x 10” film and rendered
in high-resolution 38 x 60” chromogenic prints, the 29 Palms series is both a
typological study of individual palm trunks and a shimmering reflection of the
region’s ethnically diverse human population.
www.jscottsmithphotography.com
Lucas Reiner
Lucas Reiner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1960.
He
attended the Parsons School of Design and New School for Social
Research in New York, the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, and the
Parsons School of Design and American College in Paris.
After his
first solo exhibition of paintings at Bennett Roberts Fine Art, in Los
Angeles, Art in America said Reiner’s works “resonate with emotion,
poetry and gritty reportage.” Since 2001, the artist has focused on what
he calls “portraiture” of the street-side trees in his native city,
exploring the formal collision between organic growth and the sometimes
harsh strictures of modern urban life.
The
artist’s most recent work has included a series of tree etchings
titled, Stations of the Cross, part of a larger work commissioned by St.
Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. The etchings were
completed for a limited edition printing by Clemens Buntig Editionen in
2012.
Reiner’s work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions in the Unites States, Mexico, South America and Europe.
www.lucasreiner.com
