Phillip K. Smith III in Jackson, WY
July 31st, 2024 | LN | Art
We have a new addition to our office– Sky Torus (variant 2:2, 2023), an artwork by California artist Phillip K. Smith III. I first came across Phillip's work at an exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum in 2022 and later realized I knew "The Circle of Land and Sky" from Desert X and Lucid Stead, a mirrored cabin in the California Desert. Sky Torus will hang in our office for at least the next year and is available for purchase. For pricing and additional information on the piece, please contact us or come by the studio.
Like a number of Phillip's pieces, Sky Torus almost imperceptibly cycles through a choreographed parade of colors like watching the sky shift at sunset. In a darkened room, the walls and floor take on the colors of the art creating an intoxicating, habitable color field.
Phillip K. Smith III's most recent work is Nora Mirage, a series of 11 tilted, mirrored monoliths set among ancient ruins on the coast of Sardinia for Dolce & Gabbana's Alta Moda fashion show. The faceted stalagmites reflect sea, sky, ruins and models alike for a dramatic effect, visually subverting the existing elements of the site to create something new.
More about Phillip K. Smith III:
American artist Phillip K. Smith III (b. Calif., 1972) uses light as a medium to create optically shifting sculptures and site-specific installations. His minimal but imposing interventions into vast outdoor landscapes and more discreetly scaled sculptures are nuanced perceptual encounters in response to the unique conditions of site and context. Expansile and living, Smith's boundary-dissolving sculptures alter the interplay of light, color, and surface in an expanded field, proposing shifts in experiential pace to modify the viewer's physical encounter. Trained as an artist and an architect at Rhode Island School of Design, Smith incorporates the site- specificity of architecture, with its reliance on scale and its capacity to physically impact the human interaction it supports to create immersive viewing experiences.
Sky Torus – Variant 2:2, 2023
Aluminum, glass, automotive paint, electronic components, unique color choreography
30 x 30 x 6 1/4 in
2 of 10 Unique Variants
Photos by the author, 2022. All Rights Reserved.
