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Email PageA Pythagorean Traveler
December 1, 2006- January 13, 2007
Reception: December 1, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Patti Smith
Robert Miller Gallery
524 W 26th StRobert Miller Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Patti Smith. Entitled A Pythagorean Traveler, the show includes recent photographs as well as an installation piece, a composite of objects, drawings, and a vintage silk cloth that has been inscribed by the artist. Patti Smith has exhibited her drawings with Robert Miller Gallery since the late seventies. This is the gallery’s second exhibition featuring her photographs.
Patti Smith is known most widely as a musical artist and a poet but her creative energies are not limited to these genres. Smith began as a visual artist and has been making drawings and taking photographs since her days as an art student in the late 1960’s. After the events of September 11, 2001, Smith worked on an extensive series of drawings in response to the destruction of the World Trade Center. At the conclusion of that project she found herself drawn to photography with a new concentration. Her camera of choice is a Polaroid Land 250. She has mastered the limitations of this camera to produce results of intimate beauty. From the original Polaroid, gelatin silver prints are made. The recent photographs have been taken during her many travels. The images often pay tribute to and celebrate renowned artists who have been inspirational to her work.
In 2002 a retrospective exhibition Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith, was curated by John Smith, and organized by The Andy Warhol Museum. The exhibition traveled to venues including The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and the Museum Boijsman Van Beuningen, Rotterdam through 2005. Patti Smith’s most recent book of poetry Auguries of Innocence, was published by Ecco press in 2005. She was presented with the prestigious insignia of Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters, one of the highest French cultural honors in July 2005. A retrospective of her work is planned for the Cartier Foundation in 2008.
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