Phillip K. Smith III
Location
Palm Desert, California
Mediums
Light
Artist Info
Recent projects include The Cube (2024), an 18' high reflective toroid cube sited as the new icon of a Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed project in La Jolla, CA; TRI-HEX-CIRC (2024), a 50' high all-white, torqued light and shadow work in North Scottsdale, AZ, and Four Corners Extruded (2024), a 42' high reflective and light-based work for Seattle Sound Transit Parallel Perpendicular (2021), a series of 5 freestanding reflective and color-based volumes for West Hollywood Park in Los Angeles, CA; Three Half Lozenges (2021), a permanent acquisition activating the three two-story high windows on the 1920s façade of the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, NJ; Open Sky (2018), commissioned by Scandinavian fashion house COS for Italy's Salone del Mobile, Milan; Detroit Skybridge (2018), a 100-foot-long LED installation commissioned as part of Detroit's Library Street Collective’s city-wide revitalization effort, and The Circle of Land and Sky (2017), part of the inaugural Desert X, the critically acclaimed Coachella Valley desert-wide, site-specific exhibition. Smith’s Joshua Tree, CA project, Lucid Stead (2013), continues to be celebrated as a significant example of light-based site-specific works.
- pks3.com
Spotlight
Lucid Stead
2013
Medium
Existing homesteader shack, glass mirror, acrylic mirror, plywood, LED lighting, fluorescent lights, custom electronic components, unique color program, solar array
