UIC Gallery 400 40th anniversary

These are free drawing studies for Bronze Icebergs, the first institutional solo presentation of Cauleen Smith's work in the Netherlands. Bronze Icebergs was presented at the Kunstverein, Amsterdam.

Cauleen Smith (born Riverside, California, 1967) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, Smith roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Smith’s work was included in the UIC Gallery 400 exhibitions Archival Impulse (2011), Whisper Down the Lane (2013), and After Today (2015)—alongside which the Gallery screened her film Crow Requiem, 2015. She was part of the UIC Gallery 400 public conversation It’s The People That Make The Future in 2021.