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Cedric Smith: Paintings and PhotographsPresented by Dillon Gallery June 18, 2009- July 13, 2009Reception: June 18, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmCedric SmithDillon Gallery is proud to present the mixed media paintings and photography of Cedric Smith. Enticing paintings of bounty, honest labor, community interests and nostalgic Americana reveal themselves to be subtle transcriptions of historical reality. Is it possible that the cotton exchange included prominent black businessmen? Could there have been a circus with black clowns in whiteface? Cedric Smith is openly engaged in a visual rendition of “what if” imagery. This historical rearrangement is not the artist’s singular concern: the appropriated vintage photographs within the photographic compositions attest to the existence of a well to do black American society. This photographic record of middle class and wealthy black Americans at the turn of the century encouraged a series of artworks melding the past into the present. Cedric Smith’s compositions in both media are his response to provocative thoughts; visual answers appropriately formatted in the ubiquitous twentieth century media of advertising posters with vibrant economical imagery and eye catching signage.
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