"
Neal Ambrose Smith: The (Tense) Present"
Past Show :
Feb 27-May 22 2021
Featured Exhibition Work
If I have to listen to the news one more time
by
Neal Ambrose-Smith
2019
Oil, acrylic and collage
36 X
36 inches
Inventory ID: #
16474
"Sometimes I realize I’m being sucked into the news void. News is vernacular for “tabloid”. I remind myself how alternative facts are not facts. Likewise alternative truths are not truths. This certainly goes beyond my feelings about imperfection and perfect. I believe perfection has imperfection built in." NAS
"
Neal Ambrose Smith: The (Tense) Present"
Past Show :
Feb 27-May 22 2021
Major Neal Ambrose Smith exhibition at 516 Arts in Albuquerque. open by appointment.
The (Tense) Present, a solo exhibition by Neal Ambrose-Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation) that combines a range of imagery and media to create a complex reflection on current events. He demonstrates his technical skills, mixing painting, drawing, collage, and printmaking, including monotypes that measure over 10 feet long........more at http://516arts.org/exhibitions/the-tense-present-new-works-by-neal-ambrose-smith
Exhibition Works
If I have to listen to the news one more time
by
Neal Ambrose-Smith
2019
Oil, acrylic and collage
36 X
36 inches
Inventory ID: #
16474
"Sometimes I realize I’m being sucked into the news void. News is vernacular for “tabloid”. I remind myself how alternative facts are not facts. Likewise alternative truths are not truths. This certainly goes beyond my feelings about imperfection and perfect. I believe perfection has imperfection built in." NAS
Painting is taxing
by
Neal Ambrose-Smith
2019
Oil, acrylic and collage
36 X
24 inches
Inventory ID: #
16472
"Iron Eyes Cody at the reflecting pond" NAS
The Bright Side
by
Neal Ambrose-Smith
2019
Oil, acrylic and collage
36 X
24 inches
Inventory ID: #
16470
"I’d like to believe the grass is greener at the neighbors, but I know once I get there its house of cards. They say your life flashes by in death, but I tend to review events leading to the current tragedy I’m in. Like when I smash my fingers in the car door." NAS
Coyote whispers in Italian
by
Neal Ambrose-Smith
2019
Oil, acrylic and collage
36 X
36 inches
Inventory ID: #
16475
"Many of us have some idea of the sweet nothings we’d like to hear. Coyote is whispering some Indian Romance Sweet Nothings with Iron Eyes. Who knew Coyote was multi lingual?" NAS
Do you ever get that feeling?
by
Neal Ambrose-Smith
2019
Oil, acrylic and collage
36 X
36 inches
Inventory ID: #
16476
"Where there is one there is two. That is my sinking feeling. We often romanticize other cultures, which is a healthy appreciation, but trying to become another culture is another thing entirely. Once at a dinner party I met this person who introduced themselves to me,“hello I’m wehjehk-al-et-hjkls-s.” I thought oh boy I don’t know what they just mumbled. Then they said that was their Indian name and proceeded to tell me their favorite pemmican recipe. I was really sinking in that conversation. I don’t even like pemmican. Sometimes it’s good to have some “what if?” statements to run through your mind during a crisis." NAS