soft grids

Solo Exhibition by Leah Smith

 July 29 - August 2, 2025

Reception: Friday, August 1st | 6-8P

Artist Talk: August 1st | 5:30p

More About soft grids

The works in soft grids are meditations on the way everything holds together loosely. Every new creation is an experiment, everything is provisional, even when it is modeled from a seemingly long-established pattern. Everything is temporary, shimmering in the forever-now. The only lasting resilience arises from imperfect iteration over time. Our world is an untold number of individual creations, each meeting their now just well enough to hold in place for a moment.

More About Leah 

Leah Smith explores the edges between human creativity and the natural world through an artistic practice encompassing drawing, sculpture, and fiber arts. After growing up in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains near Denver, Colorado, she fell in love with exploring the green, worn-down hills of Appalachia during her college years, and now lives and works in the small town of Canton, North Carolina. She earned her BA in Studio Art from Davidson College in 2013, where she was the recipient of the McAllen Scholarship for Studio Art. Her work has been exhibited nationally, and she has held residencies at the Hambidge Center (GA) and I-Park (CT).

To learn more visit leahsmith.studio or follow Leah on Instagram/Bluesky @eahsmith.studio