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THE ELEMENTAL
@the.elemental will feature Phillip K. Smith III
@phillipksmith3 in conversation with Steven Biller
@stevenbiller_x as part of our ongoing Dialogue & Exploration series. The discussion will focus on the past, present and future of the Light & Space movement.
Additionally, THE ELEMENTAL’s current exhibition Fractured Horizon: Explorations in Light & Atmosphere will be on view featuring works by:
GUILLERMO CELIS
CRISTOPHER CICHOCKI
CAMERON GAINER
DAVID WALLACE HASKINS
SEBASTIAN KNOT
SHANA MABARI
MARIE-LUCE NADAL
JAVIER PELÁEZ
RAÚL REBOLLEDO
CHRIS SANCHEZ
PHILLIP K. SMITH III
RICHARD TWEDT
GLEN WEXLER
American artist Phillip K. Smith III (b. Calif., 1972) uses light as a medium to create optically shifting sculptures and site-specific installations. His minimal but imposing interventions into vast outdoor landscapes and more discreetly scaled sculptures are nuanced perceptual encounters in response to the unique conditions of site and context. Expansile and living, Smith’s boundary-dissolving sculptures alter the interplay of light, color, and surface in an expanded field, proposing shifts in experiential pace to modify the viewer’s physical encounter. Trained as an artist and an architect at Rhode Island School of Design, Smith incorporates the site-specificity of architecture, with its reliance on scale and its capacity to physically impact the human interaction it supports to create immersive viewing experiences.
Steven Biller has spent more than two decades advancing art in California’s desert as a journalist, editor, consultant, curator, and leader. As longtime editorial director of Palm Springs Life, he transformed the magazine into a leading voice on arts, architecture, and design, while launching Palm Springs Life Arts + Culture, now in its third decade. His work has elevated regional artists, expanded audiences, and helped shape the cultural identity of the Coachella Valley and High Desert.
THE ELEMENTAL is a contemporary center for the arts located in Palm Springs, California available for viewing by appointment.
