Lionel Smit Studio Publishing
Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D.
LIONEL SMIT, OBSCURA
An artist book for Lionel Smit, self published to coincide with his exhibition titled Obscura at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami.
Exploring how we are shaped — and placed — by our identity. Specifically, the paintings and sculptures included in this exhibition are representative of a group of people who are multiethnic and multicultural, and whose identity is constantly evolving
The book includes an essay by author Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., entitled Obscura. Rosenfeld is Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College. He was co-curator of the exhibitions John Everett Millais (Tate Britain, Van Gogh Museum), Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (Tate Britain and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), and River Crossings (Olana and Cedar Grove, Hudson and Catskill, New York). He is a Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, and a Senior. Writer and Editor-at-Large at The Brooklyn Rail. His most recent publications includes John Everett Millais (Phaidon, 2012).
96 pages, 49 images
Four-color process on Matt Art 170gsm Machine Varnished
Hard cover / Matt Film Laminated on 150gsm Matt Art
Binding: Thread sewn
297mm x 297mm
English
ISBN 978-0-620-80765-4
1. Edition 2018
“Lionel Smit’s process is adaptive, inventive and physically engaged. He paints abstract canvases and lets them sit around the studio, ideas gestating until he is ready to project photographs of the model on them, in a mode that recalls Andy Warhol’s approach to portraiture. ”
— Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D.
Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History
Marymount Manhattan College, New York
“But Smit does not work with reproductive processes, instead relying on his hand to transcribe form and frequently reworking images multiple times, such that colour and line merge, breaking down both.”
— Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D.
Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History
Marymount Manhattan College, New York
