Matt Sheridan Smith: Flotsam/Jetsam
February 11 – February 20

Western Bridge announces the third exhibition in New Year, a new series of short-run exhibitions. New York-based artist Matt Sheridan Smith reanimates an existing piece for his installation and performance at Western Bridge. Self-portrait (golden sections) is inspired by the story of a rare Greek bronze. Many Greek sculptures were melted down by Romans to make weaponry. This particular sculpture had been struck by lightning, so was thought cursed. It was buried upside down, its plinth on top, and thus was preserved. Smith’s self-portrait takes the form of four pedestals whose dimensions were generated by applying the Golden Ratio, a key proportion used in Classical figurative sculpture, to measurements of the artist’s body. In this exhibition, Smith’s self-portrait approaches a fate related to that of the Greek bronze.