 Courtney Smith creates complex, manipulable pieces of deconstructed and reconstructed furniture. Her work transcends its minimal roots by delighting in the intellectual practice of conjugating order and disorder. Attentive to pattern and repetition, and fearlessly rigorous in its construction, it achieves a coy but deeply intelligent sensuality. Smith has exhibited her work throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America. She began her career based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she lived for 10 years before relocating to New York in 2000. In New York, her work was included in the "Greater New York, 2005" at PS1/MOMA and in 2006 she had a comprehensive solo show, "Tongue in Groove", spanning the last four years of work, at the Chelsea Art Museum. She is represented by Roebling Hall in New York, where her latest solo show "Build Up" took place in 2007.
Courtney Smith, Homestar (photo: Courtney Smith)
Courtney Smith, Noir, 2002 (photo: Rodrigo Pereda)
Courtney Smith, Psiche Complexo, 2003 (photo: Fausto Fleury)
Courtney Smith, Paraparque
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