Contemporary artist Allison Smith s diverse creative practice critically engages with popular forms of historical reenactment through a variety of media, including sculpture, textiles, ceramics, and photography. Focusing on the handmade and performative aspects of history and material culture, Smith restages, refigures, and replays the role of traditional crafts in large-scale installations that reconsider the construction of collective memory and identity.
For the core of "Allison Smith: Needle Work," the artist created contemporary revisions of European and American gas masks from...