The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive Baltimore, MD, 21218
1 March - 9 August 2020
ArtfixDaily - 6 Feb 2020
Baltimore Museum of Art to Open 10 Shows in March as Part of 2020 Vision Focus on Women Artists
...Jo Smail: Flying with Remnant Wings March 1 – August 9, 2020 South African-born, Baltimore-based artist Jo Smail uses charged colors and abstract forms to convey the strangeness, vulnerability, and complicated beauty of contemporary life. The exhibition features 50 paintings and works on paper by Smail, as well as collages produced with fellow South African artist William Kentridge. The earliest works date to the late 1990s and early 2000s when the artist overcame a studio fire that destroyed all her previous paintings and a stroke that inhibited her movement and speech. Since then, Smail has continued to draw upon her daily experiences alongside a deep engagement with international literature and theory as she experiments with different media and compositional strategies. Her profound and unique works, accompanied by their poetic and irreverent titles, reflect an irrepressible joy and optimism while never shying away from a world always on the brink of destabilization....
