LEON POLK SMITH | APPROACHING SPHERES

The Collection of Robert Jamieson

Private Collection, Florida

Acquired from the above by the present owner

“I am interested in the way space becomes distorted and multidimensional between, around and amongst the collage forms, which I place on the given or selected surface, without using any traditional means of accomplishing this, such as perspective, shading, etc. The fine line acts as a pleasingly disturbing element in aesthetic contrasts. Then by the simplest of means this is to create the greatest amount of space, moving in all directions. Space being activated and disturbed in this manner becomes multidimensional.”

(Leon Polk Smith, as quoted in Leon Polk Smith, William-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen/Musee de Grenoble 1989, p. 96)