Who Do You Think You Are?
Exhibition by Cynthia Smith
July 3–24
Opening Reception: Friday, July 3, 6–10 PM
BFF Gallery | 5901 Maple Street

Cynthia Smith is a native Nebraskan, self-taught artist, and physician whose work explores themes of identity, duality, and change.

Her practice includes assemblage sculptures and hanging art made from discarded objects, thrift store finds, garage sale materials, aluminum cans, and organic things found in nature. She combines these materials through plaster casting, 3D printing, paint, polymer clay, paper, and other mediums.

As a physician, Smith has seen people in their darkest hours, facing events so life-changing that life becomes measured by a before and after. Her work reflects the reality that beauty and ugliness can exist simultaneously in us and in the world.

A noxious weed can also be a beautiful flower. What do we show the world, and what do we hide? What happens when we ask ourselves: Who do you think you are?