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At some point in 2016, amid the racial tension America was going through up until that point, I was looking at the work of my contemporaries and realized that the work of white artists still to this day represents a segregated world. I’m trying to be conscious of creating work that integrates people for future audiences. Unfortunately, the history between us is so layered that separating race from the meaning of the work becomes impossible. Here, you have, manifested, two ideals of beauty. The blonde Barbie is unaware of the throne of blood upon which she sits, and she is thrown into the audience of black Venus in a landscape that doesn’t uphold the values that built the standards upon which Barbie sits. I guess as a white person that empathizes with what black and brown people go through on a daily basis, I try to think of scenarios that could pull Americans out of their white-centric viewpoints. So, I see this piece as a sort of wish-fulfillment: a confrontation that shocks someone from their point of view. I live for moments like this.
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2016
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David Smith
United States
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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