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My Top and My Bottom, Dates I Expected Post Coming Out Series #3

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Smith, Gunner
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Rhodes College Collection of Art
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This is an acrylic painting by Gunner Smith, who graduated in 2021. Gunner Smith's creative practice encompasses animation, video, and painting. Hiswork in includes paintings which cohere a combination of processes including painting en plein air, painting from original and appropriated photographs, and painting from digital collage. His work evokes the history of painting while preserving an exploratory, narrative process that is strongly dependent on color and pattern. The paintings are flamboyant and celebratory in their use of material and color although the figures in the paintings often appear isolated or melancholy. Through this work, Gunner expresses the joy of everyday fantasies contrasted by contemporary anxieties about finding, or missing, intimate connections with lovers and friends.
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This artwork was photographed and cataloged by Echo O'Connor (class of 2025) during the fall of 2024.