“The sculptures and installations, with their broad mix of materials and techniques,” featured in Rhonda Smith’s “Undiscovered Country” exhibition that has its opening reception as part of SoWa Boston’s First Friday activities on November 1, and continues through December 1 at the Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave. No. 43, Boston, Massachusetts, “represent both disappearance and appearance — experiences that are simultaneously deeply satisfying and fragile.” In the shadow of recent global warming caused events, through her art, Smith explores the question of whether humans will eventually disappear, and nature survive, using a lifetime of influences — sea tales, myths, poems, industrial and natural elements, medieval imagery, photographs and contemporary statistics — in “shaping, molding, and assembling materials” to give form to her ideas. A Professor of Fine Arts at the Lesley School … [Read more...] about CAPSULE PREVIEWS: November/December 2024