Another Night
Smart Objects•May 20, 2022 — Jun 26, 2022
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SMART OBJECTS is proud to present Another Night, a two-person exhibition of new paintings by Lindsay Merrill and Paul Rouphail.
Created in a process both autonomous and collaborative, Merrill and Rouphail’s realistic oil on linen scenes are charged with subtle surreality and poetic depth. Based on the artists’ immediate surroundings of Oak Hill, West Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the tableaux of domestic encounters and suburban malaise recurrently return to food and light to evince moments in time.
Illustrating notions of liminality, the paintings depict physical spaces, durational moments, and emotional states that serve as transitional corridors between two locations, times, or events. Windows, ceilings, and fences compose in-between architecture, while intermediate time ranges from pitch-black nights awaiting dawn to transitional seasons of life. The unexpected aestheticizing of casual moments with heightened nuance to detail transcends any subject or moments into an…
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Another Night
Smart Objects•May 20, 2022 — Jun 26, 2022
Press Release
SMART OBJECTS is proud to present Another Night, a two-person exhibition of new paintings by Lindsay Merrill and Paul Rouphail.
Created in a process both autonomous and collaborative, Merrill and Rouphail’s realistic oil on linen scenes are charged with subtle surreality and poetic depth. Based on the artists’ immediate surroundings of Oak Hill, West Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the tableaux of domestic encounters and suburban malaise recurrently return to food and light to evince moments in time.
Illustrating notions of liminality, the paintings depict physical spaces, durational moments, and emotional states that serve as transitional corridors between two locations, times, or events. Windows, ceilings, and fences compose in-between architecture, while intermediate time ranges from pitch-black nights awaiting dawn to transitional seasons of life. The unexpected aestheticizing of casual moments with heightened nuance to detail transcends any subject or moments into an…










































































































































































































































