By Claudia Loucks
Geneseo Current
David Smith, Geneseo artist and owner of Smith Studio and Gallery, has two of his sculptures accepted into the Open Invitational Exhibition of the Rock Island Art Gallery of Quad City Arts.
About once every two years the Rock Island Art Gallery hosts the open invitational exhibition in which they invite regional artists to submit artwork based on a theme. Artists were asked to respond to the phrase, “It’s Fine, Everything is Fine.”
The new exhibition will remain through Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Art Gallery which is located at 1715 2nd Ave., Rock Island.
Smith said, “I was excited to see the idea behind this open invitational show since several of my more recent sculptures have dealt with the angst of our times.”
One of his recent sculptures, titled “Literature,” relates a love for books, which Smith said, “also poses a question about the decision of those who wish to edit, ban or burn books.”
A second sculpture, created by Smith, is titled “Fractured Law,” which the artist said was created two years ago, and, “reflects on the inconsistency of how our laws are working for us.”
“People seeing this sculpture generally agree that our laws are not working for us as well as they should,” Smith added. “Consequentially this unique art work has been well received by everyone.”