Underrated L.A. performance artist pioneer Barbara T. Smith turns the gaze on herself to take on the aging female body — with a computer scanner.
The artist has deployed technology in other curious ways too. In the mid-1960s,and began making images of her body juxtaposed with various objects. It was a series that arose out of rejection.
The newer works, created on a flatbed scanner in Cirrus’ workshop , take the idea of the Xerox and update it for our age. In fact, one work in the new series, “Signifier 1,” 2016, which also features her hands, includes a scan of one of those early Xeroxed images.
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