Allison Smith
Allison Smith: Needle Work
2010
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Allison Smith with an essay by Wendy Vogel and interviews with Allison Smith and Lauren Adams
Contemporary artist Allison Smith’s diverse creative practice critically engages with popular forms of historical reenactment through a variety of mediums. As the inaugural Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, the artist created contemporary revisions of historical gas masks and a range of related masklike forms in which the ghoulish and the foolish, the horrific and the playful intertwine, drawing into question essential notions of camouflage and masquerade. Featuring an essay by Wendy Vogel in which she considers Smith’s project in relation to key notions put forth by Peter Sloterdijk in his Terror from the Air, the volume also includes interviews with the artist and with exhibition curator Lauren Adams.
Paper 64 pp.
ISBN 978-0-936316-30-7
Distributed by University of Chicago Press