Lauren Dana Smith
Taos, NM
Collapse
Video & Sound Installation
Duration: 4 min 55 seconds
2023
Upon Request
About
Lauren Dana Smith (b. 1979, Philadelphia) is an artist, writer and art psychotherapist living in Taos, NM. Smith’s multidisciplinary practice utilizes sculptural, digital, video and sound compositions to process land and body politics through a feminist lens. Smith studied painting and received her B.A. from Skidmore College. Smith is a faculty member at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where she received her M.P.S.. Smith’s work has been exhibited regionally and nationally and internationally. Her work has appeared in publications such as Hyperallergic, Art & Cake LA, New Visionary Magazine, ARTWALK magazine and the Santa Fe Literary Review. Smith is a Co-Founder of the Taos Abstract Artist Collective.
Artist Statement
Exploring rupture, repair and the climate of internal place, Lauren Dana Smith’s work represents the linkages between body, land, collective trauma and memory. Collapse is inspired by internal geometries and cellular landscapes; familiar, yet unidentifiable. Objects have been animated and entrained with a human heartbeat and tonal soundscapes to invite the viewer into a bodily experience. A viewer may feel that they are simultaneously hovering above the work and suspended inside of it. Smith’s work explores the relationship between tension and play, ultimately inviting a path through our intimate interior spaces and along the exterior boundaries of physical form.
