Walking Through Walls by Philip Smith5/19/2023 ![]() If anything, his palette has become more muted, with whites and off-whites mimicking drawing paper. "The work really comes from inside, so it doesn't matter what's going on around me," he says. ![]() "It had a little to do with growing up and having my father talk to people I couldn't see." Contrary to what some friends predicted, painting in Miami, where he now spends half his time, did not turn his canvases into riots of color. In his new exhibition, which opens November?7 at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York, "there are ghostlike images, like memories," says Smith. "I think of the paintings not as paintings but as drawings," he says. It's a method he developed after he became enthralled with hieroglyphics during six months in Egypt in 1984. Before it's had a chance to dry, he scratches into it as if engraving. ![]() ![]() "I slather it on like cake batter," he says. Smith spends weeks preparing his canvases with a mix of oil paint, oils, and waxes. ![]()
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