Hales Gallery, London
April 21, 2021, 1:00 PM EDT
Hosted on Zoom
Meeting ID: 950 0506 7327
Passcode: MIKE

To coincide with his solo exhibition at Hales Gallery, please join us for an in-conversation with artist Michael Smith and Director of Goldsmiths CCA Sarah McCrory.

Hales, in collaboration with Dan Gunn Gallery, is delighted to present Yet another show of drawings and videos reflecting on youth, ageing and a future of retirement by Michael Smith. In his fourth solo exhibition with Hales, Smith presents three recent bodies of work exploring these themes, which he and his performance persona will undoubtedly struggle with for years to come.

For forty years Smith (b.1951 Chicago, IL, USA) has been producing performances, video works, large scale installations, commercial television, puppet shows, photos and drawings that have been shown in a variety of venues and contexts, including museums, galleries, cable television, nightclubs, children’s birthday parties and on the streets. Smith has been at the forefront of a generation of artists interested in crossing over and merging an art world context with popular culture. A prolific artist, Smith often collaborates with other artists, including Joshua White, Mike Kelley, Seth Price and William Wegman. Drawing on aspects and conventions of daily life and mass media, Smith creates witty and ironic works that speak to the trials and tribulations of everyday life as well as to our most human concerns.

For more information, please visit the Hales Gallery website.

Caption: Michael Smith, Not Quite Under Ground, 2017 (still)