Skip to main content

Jo Smail, Leaning Over the Edge of the Moon

Jo Smail, Leaning Over the Edge of the Moon

Opening Reception November 20th, 6pm to 8 pm

For this exhibition, Smail constructed images by applying dissonant techniques that collapse reality and celebrate abstraction through the use- uncharacteristically, for Smail- of the camera. If we were to discuss the province of photography, the invocation of Barthes' name would be inevitable. Photography's relationship to reality does, as Barthes would submit, make us a witness. Photography stops time. However, why someone is compelled to act upon such power, and how they go about it, is a matter of debate. What the artist wants us to see, or conversely (as Susan Sontag might argue) what the artist choses not to reveal, transforms the image. For Smail, this transformation involves the use of empty space, that which is often referred to as "nothing".

Jo Smail was born in Durban, South Africa. Jo has studied at the Johannesburg College of Art, where she recieved her NHDAD and her NDAD, then in 1963 she recieved her Bachelors of Fine Art from University of Natal, Durban. Smail's work has exhibited at the American University Museum at the Katzen, Hirshhorn Museum, and Marianne Boesky Gallery. Her works can be seen in perminant collection at the Pretoria Art Museum, Johannesburg Art Museum, and the National Gallery of South Africa, Cape Town.

Event Contact

Goya Contemporary Gallery
410.366.2001

Event Details

Repeats weekly Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday -- until Wednesday January 28, 2015.
Repeats weekly Saturday -- until Saturday January 24, 2015.
Thursday, November 20, 2014, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Free

Location

Add Event To Your Calendar