{"product_id":"resurrection-2007-oil-on-canvas-by-stacy-stewart-smith","title":"Resurrection, 2007 Oil on Canvas by Stacy Stewart Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eResurrection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas | 34\" × 50\" | 2007\u003cbr\u003eStacy Stewart Smith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are paintings that depict the spiritual, and then there are paintings that \u003cem\u003eare\u003c\/em\u003e the spiritual — works in which the act of looking becomes an act of witnessing. \u003cem\u003eResurrection\u003c\/em\u003e is among the latter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompleted in the fall of 2007 following research conducted in Paris in June of that year, \u003cem\u003eResurrection\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to a pivotal period in Smith's Abstractrealist practice — a body of work concerned not with the supernatural as spectacle but with the private, interior moment of encounter: the theophany that cannot be explained, only experienced. The painting asks what happens in the human body and mind when something beyond ordinary understanding presents itself — and whether we tell anyone, or keep it entirely to ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTechnically, \u003cem\u003eResurrection\u003c\/em\u003e operates at the threshold between abstraction and illusion. Smith withholds the third layer of Abstractrealist pixels — the stamps and daubs that characterize his most fully resolved works — allowing the painting to remain deliberately suspended between states. In their place, he deploys panes of light and shadow contrast, fusing them in the viewer's eye through wisps of varied brushwork. Titanium White and Prussian Blue anchor the composition; Cadmium orange introduces warmth against fields of gray. Palette knife edges catch shadow and generate a sense of weight and volume within an atmosphere of weightlessness. Blurring and contrast work together to propose realism where none is strictly present — the image is illustrative, yet the eye reads it as real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vertical composition is characteristic of Smith's Paris period, in which views from the upper levels of the Eiffel Tower informed his sense of scale, distance, and the uncanny. But the intended effect is not architectural — it is perceptual. Smith wants the viewer to experience the painting as a window: to stare back at something familiar while something unfamiliar stares back through it. He calls this a parenthetical in the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExhibition History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExhibited 2008 — \u003cem\u003eStacy Stewart Smith Gallery, Brooklyn, New York\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExhibited 2008 — \u003cem\u003eGallery Guichard, Chicago, Illinois\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcquisition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMedium: Oil on canvas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 34\" × 50\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 2007\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: Very Good — deliberately damaged by a third party in 2009 and subsequently repaired by the artist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvenance: Artist's collection, New York City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShips from New York City; white-glove shipping available upon request\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Stacy Stewart Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59667540869201,"sku":"SSS-ROP2007-ORIG","price":45000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/9311\/7009\/files\/1.Resurrection_2007.jpg?v=1781791589","url":"https:\/\/stacystewartsmith.com\/zh-hans\/products\/resurrection-2007-oil-on-canvas-by-stacy-stewart-smith","provider":"Stacy Stewart Smith","version":"1.0","type":"link"}