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While pursuing my art degree, I was also heavily considering going to grad school to study under Jeffrey Kripal in Comparative Religious Studies. So, much of my early sketchbook work is infused with religious icons played by people I know. It imbues the tails with something more realistic. After all, these icons were supposed to be people at one time. I think religion sets unrealistic goals for humanity. I think most “Christians” would like you to think that Jesus never took a shit and they act accordingly. At that point, you are taking the humanity out of the religious experience and that’s dangerous. I want to leave behind relics that tell the stories of religion in a less religious way. I want to mix the blood, piss, shit and cum back into these tales. To me, it’s essential.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
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David Aaron Smith is a 34 year old painter, sculptor, and installation artist from rural Louisiana. He’s best known for the past eight years of his career where he founded Villa Anita in Death Valley, an architectural sculpture museum that invited visitors to stay overnight in “livable sculptures” built almost entirely from repurposed materials. A mixture of installation and performance art, Villa Anita in Death Valley has become a stalwart of ongoing Southern California Junk Dada, and most of the work you see there was made by Aaron. You may have seen more of Aaron’s work in solo and group shows in different parts of California. In the fall of 2019, he took on one of his most ambitious projects for a solo show at Gardenville Station in San Francisco. He spent a week with fellow artist, Katelyn Doherty, and filmmaker, Robin Malo, interviewing people from the Bayview Neighborhood, collecting repurposed and discarded material from that same area, and building sculptural portraits of the sitters. The result became a multimedia portrait of a whole community that is current being eroded away by gentrification and the prospect of bringing in more valuable residents.
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