Studio Arts Program Presents

Michael Smith

Artist Michael Smith, who began his career as an abstract painter, performs, makes videos, sculpture and drawings, creates multi-media installations and puppet shows, and does stand-up comedy. He pioneered reality television shows before reality TV existed. Hovering on the edge between art and entertainment, the sociopolitical and the aesthetic, his serious, satiric, poetic work has been seen on commercial and cable television, in comedy clubs as well as in museums, galleries and at Burning Man. Inhabiting the personae of the naïve, baffled, inept ‘Mike,’ a hapless Everyman, (think Willy Loman and Candide with slow timing and delivery), and ‘Baby Ikki,’ a pre-linguistic, genderless infant, Smith grapples with the real world of global trade, nuclear war, colonialism, real estate, and simulacra.

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For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Weis Auditorium

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