WHEN:
February 28 to April 12, 2025
WHERE:
Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
For more information and tickets visit the Western Exhibitions website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...Geoffrey Todd Smith’s Assembly, as the title suggests, is a gathering of invented portraits, as well as a reference to the way every character is constructed. Each playful visage is developed from colorful, interlocking shapes into a bifurcated humanoid form and adorned with a skin of spikey hand-drawn marks. There are no bodies, garments, props, or environments to provide clues about each entity’s circumstance. Instead, Smith constructs the heads with a variety of cartoonish anthropomorphic features, occasional animal references, and geometric voids that imbue the images with a cold, robotic stare. Like a screen actor in a close-up, each persona relies only on nuanced expressions which change moods depending on where the viewer’s gaze settles within the multi-eyed portrait. In the end, a cheeky title is given to each work, providing a sense of the artist’s mindset, but offering no concrete narrative..."
