Solo show featuring work by Alexander Smith
At the Opening
Music by DJ Sarah White
Free / all ages
Alex has been an up-and-coming graffiti writer to top rap spray dude / urban explorer / photocopy collage wizard and so forth. This show will encompass a whole lot of what he has made for and of himself.
With a deep hook in the Midwest’s street hieroglyphics culture and a penchant for deeper than first glance resonance, he fell off the grid for a few years. Battling both the law and a much more personal demon, addiction, he resided in abandoned industrial buildings.
During this primal state of being, Smith turned to his art heavier than ever previously. In his own words, “the art was my way of connecting to myself at a time when I was the farthest from myself I had ever been. The art was also the rope I used the pull myself back to reality.”
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