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Ornaminimalism

Smith's Ornaminimalism arises from the artist's longstanding interest in examining the impact of privileged classes on style and taste that reached its height with Louis XV. She echoes the excessiveness of form that was the hallmark of Rococo and combines it with Minimal art's attention to all over surface. Smith states, "The paintings reflect my view of contemporary society's excessive consumer culture, which contradicts a desire for the simple." Each work is created of two separate laser-cut panels that allow the wall between them to act as a third ornate element.

Born in Calgary, Laurel Smith received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 1998. She went on to receive her Masters of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University. In 2007 she was selected as one of 22 artists for the Alberta Biennial Exhibition Living Utopia and Disaster. In 2004 she was chosen as the Eastern Canada Winner of the Royal Bank Canadian Art Foundation's 6th annual painting competition.


November 29 - December 29, 2007 Laurel Smith \| Ornaminimalism \| review > opening Saturday, December 01 \| 4 - 8pm Artist in Attendance
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	Ornaminimalism Smith's Ornaminimalism arises from the artist's longstanding interest in examining the impact of privileged classes on style and taste that reached its height with Louis XV. She echoes the excessiveness of form that was the hallmark of Rococo and combines it with Minimal art's attention to all over surface. Smith states, "The paintings reflect my view of contemporary society's excessive consumer culture, which contradicts a desire for the simple." Each work is created of two separate laser-cut panels that allow the wall between them to act as a third ornate element. Born in Calgary, Laurel Smith received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 1998. She went on to receive her Masters of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University. In 2007 she was selected as one of 22 artists for the Alberta Biennial Exhibition Living Utopia and Disaster. In 2004 she was chosen as the Eastern Canada Winner of the Royal Bank Canadian Art Foundation's 6th annual painting competition.