Wendi Smith lives and works in Corydon, IN and has been painting for 45 years. She creates assemblage, textiles, and collage, but the painted image is central to her process. Smith taught Painting, Drawing, Design and Color for many years at Bellarmine University and Indiana University Southeast, and has been showing her work professionally since 1975.
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artist statement
The combination of a painted image and a 3-dimensional object is compelling to me.
I have been working with boxes for more than a decade, and each series is a springboard for the next. The work has evolved from boxes painted on all exterior sides, to containers where the objects inside the box (fetishes, relics) are represented on the lid, to boxes that must be opened to see the image.
This series of boxes contain paintings on wood shapes that can be removed from the box. Each plain wooden box is divided by dowels, and contains a taxonomy, a group of paintings of natural subjects presented with a list like a card catalog or a box of slides.
My concern for the vanishing natural world is at the heart of this work. For safe keeping there is nothing like a box.
Wendi Smith
The combination of a painted image and a 3-dimensional object is compelling to me.
I have been working with boxes for more than a decade, and each series is a springboard for the next. The work has evolved from boxes painted on all exterior sides, to containers where the objects inside the box (fetishes, relics) are represented on the lid, to boxes that must be opened to see the image.
This series of boxes contain paintings on wood shapes that can be removed from the box. Each plain wooden box is divided by dowels, and contains a taxonomy, a group of paintings of natural subjects presented with a list like a card catalog or a box of slides.
My concern for the vanishing natural world is at the heart of this work. For safe keeping there is nothing like a box.
Wendi Smith