Preview Opening Reception Thursday, May 10, 2012 6-9PM 1440B Gallery 601 West 26th Street, 14th

Floor Exhibit - May 11-13, 2012 12-6PM 1440B Gallery 601 West 26th Street, 14th Floor May 11-13, 2012 12-6PM Studio 9A 508 West 26th Street, 9th Floor

Bil Smith, Artist, Composer and Neologist presents Explorer, Producer, Stoic After Your Fashion, a series of nineteen (19) images which are embedded in a string quartet composition which has been commissioned to be performed at the Darmstadt Music Festival in July, 2012.

Bil Smith

Noted critics have cited influences as diverse as the Spatialism of Lucio Fontana (the score is perforated), the Dadaist Etymology (Neologisms act as instructional guideposts for the performer), Alberto Burri (Combustion) as well as the indeterminate elements found in composers John Cage and Morton Feldman. Graphically, Cornelius Cardew and the referential metallic inferences point to Enrico Castellani and Arte Provera. Smith works in a conceptual compositional aesthetic that eschews the traditional music notation system and in turn, creates a new tablature for the performer. Critics have described his work as The next complexity juxtaposed against serial indeterminacy.