Flit Gun
26" x 6" x 9"; mixed media
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By Shawn Smith
My work explores the entangled relationships between humans, animals, and environments. I investigate how systems—ecological, technological, and cultural—intersect and reshape one another. We increasingly experience nature as something distant: flattened on screens, abstracted into data, and reduced to visual information. My practice responds to this disconnection by creating sculptural forms that reintroduce physical presence, material labor, and multisensory engagement.
My work asks what it means to view nature through constructed frameworks, the compound eye, the algorithm, or human memory. How do these frameworks alter what we see and invite viewers to look at the natural world through a different lens? My practice draws from themes of ecological uncertainty, mimicry, and adaptation to consider how human actions alter landscapes and, in turn, how those altered landscapes shape us. By working across different materials and methods, from pixelated digital translations to biologically inspired forms, I aim to highlight fragile yet resilient patterns of coexistence.
"I ask viewers to reconsider their perception of nature, not as just a backdrop or a resource, but as a dynamic mesh of relationships. Within these entanglements lie overlooked architectures and unexpected futures, where beauty and complexity emerge even in what is fragile, fragmented, frightening, or unfamiliar.
108|Contemporary is thrilled to present Alicia Kelly: Roughly Right, a solo exhibition on view February 6 – March 21, 2026. Roughly Right infuses the act of turning process into ritual, repetition into meditation, and soft shadows into alternative architecture. Sitting at the intersection of drawing and sculpture, this exhibition emphasizes the importance of the handmade wavering line and the conversation between layers of paper, pattern and body."