Krista Louise Smith
After years of suffering from an inflamed nerve running down her right arm, Smith began working with her non-dominant hand. Set among veils of semi-transparent oils, her drawn lines are absent of judgment or self-consciousness – in the artist’s words :: “close to something my inner child would not likely question.” Made as a means to heal,the work is of infinite and infectious lightness. It is a mediation on the quieting divinity that can come from surrender. As a viewer in the parallel plane of the work, the physical, emotional and spiritual experiences are all on equal levels.
Krista Louise Smith is a Canadian-born artist living and working in Brooklyn. She received her BFA from OCAD University (formerly the Ontario College of Art and Design) in Toronto in 2010, and in 2014 an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art, where she was a NYAA Merit Scholarship recipient. Smith has conducted residencies at the Leipzig International Artist in Residence in Leipzig, Germany, at Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in Woodstock, New York, and at the Art Students League Residency at VYT, Sparkhill, New York. She is a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation for the Arts …
After years of suffering from an inflamed nerve running down her right arm, Smith began working with her non-dominant hand. Set among veils of semi-transparent oils, her drawn lines are absent of judgment or self-consciousness – in the artist’s words :: “close to something my inner child would not likely question.” Made as a means to heal,the work is of infinite and infectious lightness. It is a mediation on the quieting divinity that can come from surrender. As a viewer in the parallel plane of the work, the physical, emotional and spiritual experiences are all on equal levels.
Krista Louise Smith is a Canadian-born artist living and working in Brooklyn. She received her BFA from OCAD University (formerly the Ontario College of Art and Design) in Toronto in 2010, and in 2014 an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art, where she was a NYAA Merit Scholarship recipient. Smith has conducted residencies at the Leipzig International Artist in Residence in Leipzig, Germany, at Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in Woodstock, New York, and at the Art Students League Residency at VYT, Sparkhill, New York. She is a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation for the Arts Grant, and has also been awarded the Ruth Katzman Prize.
Courtesy of Carvalho Park
