NEWS

Apr 15, 2009
Cannon Gallery Invitational
Tara Smith will be showing at the Cannon Art Gallery Invitational Invitational this summer. Please join in the fun and come to the opening Saturday, June 27th from 5-7 p.m. The other three artists in the exhibition are David Fobes, Duke Windsor,and Joseph Bennett.

Aug 23, 2008
Featured artist at the HEIST GALLERY, 27 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR ...SO YOU CAN BREAK INTO ENDLESS SHARDS
Group Exhibition
July 17 - August 10, 2008

While this exhibition is an obvious reference to the mythic Velvet Underground song titled "I'll be your mirror" in which Nico sang in her beautiful ingenue voice the first part of this title, it is equally a celebration of love, life, empathy, death and everything we may endure through a shared experience with another.

The song is about how you can understand someone you love despite all the inner turmoil and twisted self-perceptions. It's about ultimate empathy and the recognition of beauty in the simple of truth of being there, of that impending present moment that erases everything before it and supplants everything after.

The title is also an homage and reference to Nan Goldin's brilliant collection of photographs for which the book bears the same name. As you know, they reflect her friendships, loves, lovers and everything they have been through over the years -- their battle with drugs, AIDS, love and everything in between.

The work presented in this exhibition of thirty-one artists depicts their individual gazes, their perceptions of self and of others; they expound upon love, friendship and the personal story of each artist but through a lens of inherent contradiction that can only stem through utter introspection. The results are personal, beautiful, aloof, disturbing, twisted and unkind.