The Thread You Follow: Debra M Smith

Resident artist Debra Smith’s show The Thread you Follow is ongoing at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, MO until December 20. The exhibition features her work as well as the art of artist Donna Sharrett. The exhibition premiered at a member’s reception Sept 30.In the Thread you Follow: Debra M. Smith and Donna Sharrett, the two artists partner their techniques together for an interesting dialogue. The aesthetic space between Smith’s and Sharrett’s creations returns the audience to the past. In the former, the viewer’s imagination is presented with an intangible narrative that disrupts the otherwise formal quality of the compositions with ghostly and poetic connections to the past. In the latter, the viewer is grounded through familiar fabrics and cultural arrangements of fabric.Smith, through combinations of fabric that resemble paint from Japanese silk kimonos, suit linings, and neckties, composes abstract, rectangular assemblages that take the viewer to another place and time. Smith’s compositions are meant to stimulate the mind and imaginations of her viewersA gallery talk for The Thread you Follow is Nov 3 at 6 pm, at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art located in State Fair Community College, 3201 W 16th St, Sedalia, MO 65301. Visit the Museum’s website at www.daummuseum.org.Click here for more photos of the exhibition.