Comfort Zone — Rachel L. Smith

COMFORT ZONES
Studio Articolore, Walla Walla, WA
January 18 - March 9, 2018

Comfort Zones is a two-person exhibition featuring artists Rachel Smith and Juventino Aranda exploring how discomfort is navigated. Both artists are captivated by the power of certain materials and images to produce a sense of collective nostalgia. This sense of collective familiarity is deconstructed and re-combined in ways that distort information to provoke unease. The exhibition is a conversation about the complexities and entanglements that surround popular culture, historical information, and nostalgic longing.

Poster: Studio Articolore

Poster: Studio Articolore

Disturbance , 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Disturbance, 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Disturbance (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Disturbance (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Disturbance (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Disturbance (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Disturbance (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Disturbance (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Disturbance (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Disturbance (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

…Or 2,372,217.6 Depending on Who You Ask , 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

…Or 2,372,217.6 Depending on Who You Ask, 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

…Or 2,372,217.6 Depending on Who You Ask (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

…Or 2,372,217.6 Depending on Who You Ask (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

…Or 2,372,217.6 Depending on Who You Ask (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

…Or 2,372,217.6 Depending on Who You Ask (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Cream of the Crop , 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Cream of the Crop, 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Cream of the Crop (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Cream of the Crop (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Cream of the Crop (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Cream of the Crop (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Cream of the Crop (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018

Cream of the Crop (detail), 20” x 13”, Gingham & Thread on Found Map, 2018