{"id":8398,"date":"2012-03-19T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T14:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2012-04-14T09:01:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T13:01:17","slug":"vicki-smith-new-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8398","title":{"rendered":"Vicki Smith \/ New Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Vicki_Smith_Poets_19375_360.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8396\" title=\"Vicki_Smith_Poets_19375_360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Vicki_Smith_Poets_19375_360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Poets<strong>, <\/strong>oil on panel, 60 x 40 inches<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 18\u00a0\u2013 April 13, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Thursday, March 22, 6\u20138 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>BAU-XI GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n340 Dundas St. West<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, M5T 1G5<br \/>\nT: 416.977.0600<br \/>\nE: toronto@bau-xi.com<br \/>\nwww.bau-xiphoto.com<br \/>\nHours: Mon-Sat 10\u20135:30, Sun 11\u20135:30<\/p>\n<p>Smith is known for her paintings of female figures. The figures explore the possibilities and limitations of gravity. Often shown suspended in dark air, twisted and upside down, falling into and out of the picture plane, the figures\u00a0\u00a0are so precariously placed upon the canvas that they threaten to slip away. Though rarely grounded, they are always balanced.<\/p>\n<p>In Smith\u2019s latest series of paintings, the figures play with gravity in the water. They float, fly, emerge and disappear in the broken surface of the water, a space with infinite boundaries. The paintings have a beautiful, deep calm.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki Smith studied fine art at the Ontario College of Art, graduating in 1981 with honours. Her fourth year of study was completed in Florence, Italy. Smith\u2019s work has been placed in numerous private collections in North America, Australia and Europe. She currently works and resides in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 22 \u2013 April 13, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Thursday, March 22, 6 \u2013 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BAU-XI GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Smith\u2019s latest series of paintings, the figures play with gravity in the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8398\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8424,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions\/8424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}