Douglas Smith
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
City: Vancouver
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Male
Mediums: drawing, painting
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Work by Douglas Smith
Treaty of Westphalia
Work ID: 78561
Measurements: 127 x 254 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Spectacle From Cartesian Heights (detail)
Work ID: 78574
Measurements: 213.36 x 254 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pantheon
Work ID: 78575
Measurements: 213.36 x 254 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Scratching the Surface, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78603
Description: Sctraching the Surface, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, 2007.
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Betrothal Process For Muskrat
Work ID: 78562
Measurements: 213.36 x 254 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pantheon (detail)
Work ID: 78576
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Betrothal Process For Muskrat (detail)
Work ID: 78563
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Scratching the Surface, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78601
Description: Sctraching the Surface, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, 2007.
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Scratching the Surface, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78602
Description: Sctraching the Surface, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, 2007.
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Transatlantic Tracks
Work ID: 78560
Measurements: 127 x 254 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Portal
Work ID: 78572
Measurements: 213.36 x 254 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Schematic for a Utopian Event (detail)
Work ID: 78579
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Valhalla (detail)
Work ID: 78565
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Schematic for a Utopian Event
Work ID: 78577
Measurements: 213.36 x 254 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: drawn, Original CCCA
Valhalla
Work ID: 78564
Measurements: 213.36 x 254 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Portal (detail)
Work ID: 78573
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pangaea (detail)
Work ID: 78569
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Schematic for a Utopian Event (detail)
Work ID: 78578
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Reverie in the Nocturne (detail)
Work ID: 78571
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pangaea (detail)
Work ID: 78570
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pangaea
Work ID: 78568
Measurements: 213.36 x 254 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Reverie in the Nocturne
Work ID: 78566
Measurements: 213.36 x 254 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Reverie in the Nocturne (detail)
Work ID: 78567
Collection:
Date Made: 2008
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis I (detail)
Work ID: 78582
Collection:
Date Made: 2010
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis II
Work ID: 78584
Measurements: 213.36 x 254 cm [4 paper panels]
Collection:
Date Made: 2010
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis I
Work ID: 78580
Measurements: 213.36 x 254 cm [4 paper panels]
Collection:
Date Made: 2010
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis III
Work ID: 78587
Measurements: 213.36 x 254 cm [4 paper panels]
Collection:
Date Made: 2010
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis II (detail)
Work ID: 78585
Collection:
Date Made: 2010
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis I (detail)
Work ID: 78581
Collection:
Date Made: 2010
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis III (detail)
Work ID: 78588
Collection:
Date Made: 2010
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis II (detail)
Work ID: 78586
Collection:
Date Made: 2010
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis I (detail)
Work ID: 78583
Collection:
Date Made: 2010
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Arena 3 (detail)
Work ID: 78594
Collection:
Date Made: 2011
Materials: graphite, pencil, acrylic on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Arena 1 (detail)
Work ID: 78590
Collection:
Date Made: 2011
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Arena 3
Work ID: 78593
Measurements: 127 x 317.5 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2011
Materials: graphite, pencil, acrylic on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Arena 2 (detail)
Work ID: 78592
Collection:
Date Made: 2011
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Arena 1
Work ID: 78589
Measurements: 120 x 50 in
Collection:
Date Made: 2011
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Arena 2
Work ID: 78591
Measurements: 127 x 355.6 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2011
Materials: graphite pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78607
Description: Catharsis, aceartinc., Winnipeg, 2012.
Collection:
Date Made: 2012
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78609
Description: Catharsis, aceartinc., Winnipeg, 2012.
Collection:
Date Made: 2012
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Arena 4
Work ID: 78595
Measurements: 254 x 330.2 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2012
Materials: graphite, pencil, acrylic on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78608
Description: Catharsis, aceartinc., Winnipeg, 2012.
Collection:
Date Made: 2012
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78605
Description: Catharsis, aceartinc., Winnipeg, 2012.
Collection:
Date Made: 2012
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78606
Description: Catharsis, aceartinc., Winnipeg, 2012.
Collection:
Date Made: 2012
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Arena 4 (detail)
Work ID: 78596
Collection:
Date Made: 2012
Materials: graphite, pencil, acrylic on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78618
Description: Catharsis, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, 2013.
[introductory panel to the exhibition]:
Catharsis
Curated by Natalia Lebedinskaia
Doug Smith’s series of monumental drawings build on ideas of spectacle and transmigration. The Term catharsis has been used by Aristotle to describe the effect of purging social angst through evocation of pity and fear in tragic drama. However, it has since extended to further signify personal experiences of release, such as in revealing repressed emotions and memories.
Smith’s use of easily recognizable and ever-present images and symbols from visual and popular culture, such as commercial aircraft, military helicopters, human and bird figures, of references to architectural draftsmanship, create a simultaneous push and pull between accessibility of the drawings and absence of a fixed meaning. The sense of opaque familiarity brings into focus the space just below the surface of both personal and the collective consciousness, while a panoramic format builds a non-linear storyboard of repeated historic anxieties.
Smith’s sparse use of vibrant colour refers to a primordial state of chaos that exists outside the structures of organized power. The repeated elements in the rest of the drawings, however, present a familiar view: a world that is clearly ours, but whose logic belongs to forces beyond our control. The relationship between order and chaos plays out the scale of the drawings and the tiny stenciled figures swept up, released, and sent to march in formations. Are we being asked to follow, reflect, or resist these movements?
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78612
Description: Catharsis, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, 2013.
[introductory panel to the exhibition]:
Catharsis
Curated by Natalia Lebedinskaia
Doug Smith’s series of monumental drawings build on ideas of spectacle and transmigration. The Term catharsis has been used by Aristotle to describe the effect of purging social angst through evocation of pity and fear in tragic drama. However, it has since extended to further signify personal experiences of release, such as in revealing repressed emotions and memories.
Smith’s use of easily recognizable and ever-present images and symbols from visual and popular culture, such as commercial aircraft, military helicopters, human and bird figures, of references to architectural draftsmanship, create a simultaneous push and pull between accessibility of the drawings and absence of a fixed meaning. The sense of opaque familiarity brings into focus the space just below the surface of both personal and the collective consciousness, while a panoramic format builds a non-linear storyboard of repeated historic anxieties.
Smith’s sparse use of vibrant colour refers to a primordial state of chaos that exists outside the structures of organized power. The repeated elements in the rest of the drawings, however, present a familiar view: a world that is clearly ours, but whose logic belongs to forces beyond our control. The relationship between order and chaos plays out the scale of the drawings and the tiny stenciled figures swept up, released, and sent to march in formations. Are we being asked to follow, reflect, or resist these movements?
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78610
Description: Catharsis, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, 2013.
[introductory panel to the exhibition]:
Catharsis
Curated by Natalia Lebedinskaia
Doug Smith’s series of monumental drawings build on ideas of spectacle and transmigration. The Term catharsis has been used by Aristotle to describe the effect of purging social angst through evocation of pity and fear in tragic drama. However, it has since extended to further signify personal experiences of release, such as in revealing repressed emotions and memories.
Smith’s use of easily recognizable and ever-present images and symbols from visual and popular culture, such as commercial aircraft, military helicopters, human and bird figures, of references to architectural draftsmanship, create a simultaneous push and pull between accessibility of the drawings and absence of a fixed meaning. The sense of opaque familiarity brings into focus the space just below the surface of both personal and the collective consciousness, while a panoramic format builds a non-linear storyboard of repeated historic anxieties.
Smith’s sparse use of vibrant colour refers to a primordial state of chaos that exists outside the structures of organized power. The repeated elements in the rest of the drawings, however, present a familiar view: a world that is clearly ours, but whose logic belongs to forces beyond our control. The relationship between order and chaos plays out the scale of the drawings and the tiny stenciled figures swept up, released, and sent to march in formations. Are we being asked to follow, reflect, or resist these movements?
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78616
Description: Catharsis, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, 2013.
[introductory panel to the exhibition]:
Catharsis
Curated by Natalia Lebedinskaia
Doug Smith’s series of monumental drawings build on ideas of spectacle and transmigration. The Term catharsis has been used by Aristotle to describe the effect of purging social angst through evocation of pity and fear in tragic drama. However, it has since extended to further signify personal experiences of release, such as in revealing repressed emotions and memories.
Smith’s use of easily recognizable and ever-present images and symbols from visual and popular culture, such as commercial aircraft, military helicopters, human and bird figures, of references to architectural draftsmanship, create a simultaneous push and pull between accessibility of the drawings and absence of a fixed meaning. The sense of opaque familiarity brings into focus the space just below the surface of both personal and the collective consciousness, while a panoramic format builds a non-linear storyboard of repeated historic anxieties.
Smith’s sparse use of vibrant colour refers to a primordial state of chaos that exists outside the structures of organized power. The repeated elements in the rest of the drawings, however, present a familiar view: a world that is clearly ours, but whose logic belongs to forces beyond our control. The relationship between order and chaos plays out the scale of the drawings and the tiny stenciled figures swept up, released, and sent to march in formations. Are we being asked to follow, reflect, or resist these movements?
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Arena 5 (detail)
Work ID: 78599
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials: graphite, pencil, coloured pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78615
Description: Catharsis, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, 2013.
[introductory panel to the exhibition]:
Catharsis
Curated by Natalia Lebedinskaia
Doug Smith’s series of monumental drawings build on ideas of spectacle and transmigration. The Term catharsis has been used by Aristotle to describe the effect of purging social angst through evocation of pity and fear in tragic drama. However, it has since extended to further signify personal experiences of release, such as in revealing repressed emotions and memories.
Smith’s use of easily recognizable and ever-present images and symbols from visual and popular culture, such as commercial aircraft, military helicopters, human and bird figures, of references to architectural draftsmanship, create a simultaneous push and pull between accessibility of the drawings and absence of a fixed meaning. The sense of opaque familiarity brings into focus the space just below the surface of both personal and the collective consciousness, while a panoramic format builds a non-linear storyboard of repeated historic anxieties.
Smith’s sparse use of vibrant colour refers to a primordial state of chaos that exists outside the structures of organized power. The repeated elements in the rest of the drawings, however, present a familiar view: a world that is clearly ours, but whose logic belongs to forces beyond our control. The relationship between order and chaos plays out the scale of the drawings and the tiny stenciled figures swept up, released, and sent to march in formations. Are we being asked to follow, reflect, or resist these movements?
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78617
Description: Catharsis, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, 2013.
[introductory panel to the exhibition]:
Catharsis
Curated by Natalia Lebedinskaia
Doug Smith’s series of monumental drawings build on ideas of spectacle and transmigration. The Term catharsis has been used by Aristotle to describe the effect of purging social angst through evocation of pity and fear in tragic drama. However, it has since extended to further signify personal experiences of release, such as in revealing repressed emotions and memories.
Smith’s use of easily recognizable and ever-present images and symbols from visual and popular culture, such as commercial aircraft, military helicopters, human and bird figures, of references to architectural draftsmanship, create a simultaneous push and pull between accessibility of the drawings and absence of a fixed meaning. The sense of opaque familiarity brings into focus the space just below the surface of both personal and the collective consciousness, while a panoramic format builds a non-linear storyboard of repeated historic anxieties.
Smith’s sparse use of vibrant colour refers to a primordial state of chaos that exists outside the structures of organized power. The repeated elements in the rest of the drawings, however, present a familiar view: a world that is clearly ours, but whose logic belongs to forces beyond our control. The relationship between order and chaos plays out the scale of the drawings and the tiny stenciled figures swept up, released, and sent to march in formations. Are we being asked to follow, reflect, or resist these movements?
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78613
Description: Catharsis, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, 2013.
[introductory panel to the exhibition]:
Catharsis
Curated by Natalia Lebedinskaia
Doug Smith’s series of monumental drawings build on ideas of spectacle and transmigration. The Term catharsis has been used by Aristotle to describe the effect of purging social angst through evocation of pity and fear in tragic drama. However, it has since extended to further signify personal experiences of release, such as in revealing repressed emotions and memories.
Smith’s use of easily recognizable and ever-present images and symbols from visual and popular culture, such as commercial aircraft, military helicopters, human and bird figures, of references to architectural draftsmanship, create a simultaneous push and pull between accessibility of the drawings and absence of a fixed meaning. The sense of opaque familiarity brings into focus the space just below the surface of both personal and the collective consciousness, while a panoramic format builds a non-linear storyboard of repeated historic anxieties.
Smith’s sparse use of vibrant colour refers to a primordial state of chaos that exists outside the structures of organized power. The repeated elements in the rest of the drawings, however, present a familiar view: a world that is clearly ours, but whose logic belongs to forces beyond our control. The relationship between order and chaos plays out the scale of the drawings and the tiny stenciled figures swept up, released, and sent to march in formations. Are we being asked to follow, reflect, or resist these movements?
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78614
Description: Catharsis, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, 2013.
[introductory panel to the exhibition]:
Catharsis
Curated by Natalia Lebedinskaia
Doug Smith’s series of monumental drawings build on ideas of spectacle and transmigration. The Term catharsis has been used by Aristotle to describe the effect of purging social angst through evocation of pity and fear in tragic drama. However, it has since extended to further signify personal experiences of release, such as in revealing repressed emotions and memories.
Smith’s use of easily recognizable and ever-present images and symbols from visual and popular culture, such as commercial aircraft, military helicopters, human and bird figures, of references to architectural draftsmanship, create a simultaneous push and pull between accessibility of the drawings and absence of a fixed meaning. The sense of opaque familiarity brings into focus the space just below the surface of both personal and the collective consciousness, while a panoramic format builds a non-linear storyboard of repeated historic anxieties.
Smith’s sparse use of vibrant colour refers to a primordial state of chaos that exists outside the structures of organized power. The repeated elements in the rest of the drawings, however, present a familiar view: a world that is clearly ours, but whose logic belongs to forces beyond our control. The relationship between order and chaos plays out the scale of the drawings and the tiny stenciled figures swept up, released, and sent to march in formations. Are we being asked to follow, reflect, or resist these movements?
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78611
Description: Catharsis, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, 2013.
[introductory panel to the exhibition]:
Catharsis
Curated by Natalia Lebedinskaia
Doug Smith’s series of monumental drawings build on ideas of spectacle and transmigration. The Term catharsis has been used by Aristotle to describe the effect of purging social angst through evocation of pity and fear in tragic drama. However, it has since extended to further signify personal experiences of release, such as in revealing repressed emotions and memories.
Smith’s use of easily recognizable and ever-present images and symbols from visual and popular culture, such as commercial aircraft, military helicopters, human and bird figures, of references to architectural draftsmanship, create a simultaneous push and pull between accessibility of the drawings and absence of a fixed meaning. The sense of opaque familiarity brings into focus the space just below the surface of both personal and the collective consciousness, while a panoramic format builds a non-linear storyboard of repeated historic anxieties.
Smith’s sparse use of vibrant colour refers to a primordial state of chaos that exists outside the structures of organized power. The repeated elements in the rest of the drawings, however, present a familiar view: a world that is clearly ours, but whose logic belongs to forces beyond our control. The relationship between order and chaos plays out the scale of the drawings and the tiny stenciled figures swept up, released, and sent to march in formations. Are we being asked to follow, reflect, or resist these movements?
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Arena 5 (detail)
Work ID: 78598
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials: graphite, pencil, coloured pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Arena 5 (composite)
Work ID: 78597
Measurements: 127 x 889 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials: graphite, pencil, coloured pencil on paper
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Catharsis, Exhibition installation view
Work ID: 78619
Description: Catharsis, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, 2013.
[introductory panel to the exhibition]:
Catharsis
Curated by Natalia Lebedinskaia
Doug Smith’s series of monumental drawings build on ideas of spectacle and transmigration. The Term catharsis has been used by Aristotle to describe the effect of purging social angst through evocation of pity and fear in tragic drama. However, it has since extended to further signify personal experiences of release, such as in revealing repressed emotions and memories.
Smith’s use of easily recognizable and ever-present images and symbols from visual and popular culture, such as commercial aircraft, military helicopters, human and bird figures, of references to architectural draftsmanship, create a simultaneous push and pull between accessibility of the drawings and absence of a fixed meaning. The sense of opaque familiarity brings into focus the space just below the surface of both personal and the collective consciousness, while a panoramic format builds a non-linear storyboard of repeated historic anxieties.
Smith’s sparse use of vibrant colour refers to a primordial state of chaos that exists outside the structures of organized power. The repeated elements in the rest of the drawings, however, present a familiar view: a world that is clearly ours, but whose logic belongs to forces beyond our control. The relationship between order and chaos plays out the scale of the drawings and the tiny stenciled figures swept up, released, and sent to march in formations. Are we being asked to follow, reflect, or resist these movements?
Collection:
Date Made: 2013
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
