Be Right Back
Victoria Smits
January 9 - February 27
Receptions:
Opening Reception: January 9, 5–7 PM
Second First Friday: February 6, 5–7 PM
Artist Talk: February 5, 5:30 – 6:30 PM
On View: Wednesday - Saturday, 11 AM-4 PM beginning January 9.
Be Right Back offers a pause, a space to discover respite and reprieve, to provide a place where we go when we put up a note saying, "Be right back."
The installation of impromptu deer sightings, ataractic voice, thrifted clothing that was once against the body, attention drawings, and viewer response poses a return to nervous system regulation amid notions of productivity and urgency, of finding our breath while we encounter all that is before us.
About Victoria Smits:
Victoria Smits is an interdisciplinary artist and writer living in Eugene, Oregon. Her practice begins in attention: what she sees, what she notices, what energies affect her body. Smits explores the intersection of these conceptual discoveries with research-driven work including installation, textiles, sculpture, video, sound, drawing, and writing.
Smits’ work has been exhibited at the Manchester Craft and Design Centre, UK; Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Old Stonehouse in Brooklyn, NY; and Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, among others. Smits' poetry can be found in the edited collection, Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity through Demeter Press. She studied English, Art, and Secondary Education at Calvin University, received an MA in English Education with a concentration in creative writing from the University of Buffalo, and an MFA through the School of Art Institute of Chicago.