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Gregory Euclide December 2 – December 5, 2010 PULSE Contemporary Art Fair: , Booth I-201

The David B. Smith Gallery is pleased to announce that it will be presenting an exhibition of new work by Gregory Euclide, including an interactive site-specific installation, at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair in Miami, December 2 – 5, 2010. The exhibitors at PULSE consist of a select group of leading and pioneering international galleries who present works by premier contemporary artists. The David B. Smith Gallery is delighted to be participating in PULSE and to be presenting Euclideʼs work in the Impulse section of the Fair which features solo exhibitions.

Euclideʼs artistry has moved to a new level with this significant body of work. He continues to explore the tensions, confusion and contradictions between pristine nature and the culture in which we live, and he continues to ask how we can simultaneously preserve the environment, and yet maintain the benefits of a modern lifestyle. Euclide poses these questions in the form of increasingly complex and engaging dioramas. The compositions contain a mixture of landscape images painted on paper that have been shaped into three-dimensional sculptures. The battered and wrinkled sheets of paper that are the foundation of these works, carry a blend of imagery containing picturesque landscapes drawn from memory, photo transfers based on nature photography, and abstract areas of raw paint. Euclide uses actual artifacts from the land, such as pine needles and bark, and places them in juxtaposition with found, weathered, manmade waste materials, like styrofoam, that are unable to decompose.

The exaggerated folds of thick watercolor paper transform the traditional landscape images into a dimensional topography that should be viewed from a variety of angles. These new terrains, painted on both sides and containing hidden vignettes, encourage the kind of exploration one might find in nature rather than in a traditional, straightforward picture, and invoke a mindset of investigation, discovery and imagination.

Please visit Gregory Euclideʼs exhibition at the David B. Smith Gallery booth, I – 201 at PULSE. More information is available on our website and PULSE Art Fairʼs website at pulse-art.com.

About the Artist Gregory Euclide is an artist and teacher living in the Twin Cities, in . He received his MFA from the College of Art and Design, and he has recently been awarded two Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants through the National Endowment for the Arts and a Jerome Foundation Residency through the Blacklock Nature Society. His work was featured in Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape at MASS MoCA (March 2008-April 2009) and will be included in the exhibition Otherworldy at the Museum of Arts and Design in (May 2011-August 2011).

About David B. Smith Gallery David B. Smith Gallery is 's venue for compelling contemporary art. Since its founding in 2007, the gallery has been committed to presenting intelligent and culturally relevant exhibitions featuring work from some of today's most dynamic artists with growing international reputations. Through participation in leading art fairs and extensive media coverage, David Smith has cultivated a strong regional, national and international collector audience. In August 2008, The New York Times hailed the gallery as offering "an exciting contrast of cutting edge works." In addition to its curatorial program, David B. Smith maintains an active publishing division, Limited Addiction, which produces limited edition artist prints and monographs.