Rebecca Daryl Smith is currently a Visiting Professor of Art at Berea College.
She recently co-founded Lackland Well Artist Residency with Laura Oertel.
Smith’s process is a call and response between her hands and the materials, the materials and the structure, and the viewer and the object. She often ask: how do we adapt and grow in response to our environments, experiences, and relationships to one another? Her work employs cloth and craft practices to create fragile, contingent, and emotive works which provide quietude and sensorial intimacy. She acutely observes and translates moments of tension that forge balanced order and structure. For Smith, these harmonious yet precarious tensions are access points for sensitive and complex emotional and independent journeys. By abstracting the language, history and process of craft and textile, her work heightens awareness and shifts perspectives to participate in a conversation about both the trials and brilliance in our interconnectedness.
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hammered brass, cotton
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