Smith’s Belfast art exhibit featured in BDN
The Bangor Daily News reported on a current art exhibit by Susan Smith, who teaches in the Master of Fine Art program in intermedia at the University of Maine and is the coordinator of the Lord Hall Gallery on campus. Smith’s show, “The Botany of Sacrifice,” is on display at the Waterfall Arts in Belfast through Nov. 25 and focuses on the dark side of large-scale agriculture. The show includes four large paintings of “superweeds,” created by the use of pesticides and resistant to chemicals, as well as small bundles of botanical material that are placed at the base of the paintings, according to the article. “I call them the sacrifices,” she said. “I call the superweeds the gods.”