This is an exhibition of photo-based artwork that creates new forms from cast-off photographic materials as it explores widely ranging topics. Illinois-based artist Shawn Michelle Smith's work as an artist, scholar, writer, and educator is focused on photography: what it is, what it means, and what it does.

She is interested in the materiality of photographs and photographic technologies as well as their social functions. She says: “My artwork is photo-based and ranges widely from the personal to the more broadly cultural. It is informed by my work as a writer, scholar, and educator, and explores questions about the nature of photography and its social function. I often begin with already existing photographs, and over the past few years, I have been using cast-off color snapshots as raw material to make new images.”

March 13 through April 25
North Las Vegas Campus - Artspace Gallery