Where the Great Lakes Leap to the Sea was exhibited as an online exhibition at Silver Eye Center for Photography
April 10-23, 2020
From Here On Out
North South, South North was featured on From Here On Out
March 2020
Stories of the South @ Ground Floor Gallery
Stories of the South
Ground Floor Gallery
Nashville TN
An Object of Their Own
An Object of Their Own
Perspectives Gallery
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Jessica Labatte, Nicole White, Douglas Degges and Sarah Smith
RULERS @ COCO HUNDAY
RULERS is an open exhibition for all artists to submit original works of handmade rulers. In an era of terrible rulers, we invite artists to develop their own measuring objects with mechanical, political, or poetic implications.
RULERS group exhibition at Coco Hunday, summer 2019, documentation by Pat Blocher
Archiving Time: Aging & Legacy
My work was included in the exhibition, Archiving Time: Aging & Legacy organized by Light Leaked, a bi-monthly online photography magazine. Learn more about Light Leaked and see work from all of the included artists here
Incandescent Issue 15: published by Pine Island Press
Images from God’s Country were included in issue 15 of Incandescent, a publication featuring color film photography produced and distributed by Pine Island Press.
Don't Smile
Flypaper @ VERSA Gallery
Flypaper
Collaborative Work with Douglas Degges
VERSA Gallery
Chattanooga, TN
Exhibition Dates: December 7th - December 28th
Opening Reception: December 7th 6-10pm
Flypaper is an exhibition of recent collaborative work by Douglas Degges and Sarah Phyllis Smith. The work explores the space between idea and feeling through the pairing and layering of text and image. Image-making is approached as a physical thinking process and objects become containers for shared memories. For Sarah, whose work is often rooted in autobiographical narrative, this work is a move toward improvisation and abstraction. For Douglas, this work marks an embrace of representational imagery and storytelling.
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VERSA Gallery
Dastan Magazine in Iran
Work from my “Stay on the Rug” series was featured on the cover of Iranian literary magazine, Dastan.
fish hotel @ Space 204: Vanderbilt University
fish hotel
Space 204
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Exhibition Dates: June 13th - August 30th
Closing Reception: August 30th 4-6pm
Fish Hotel is a two-person exhibition of recent video, photographic, and sculptural work by Douglas Degges and Sarah Phyllis Smith. Both artists explore the space between idea and feeling, where creative processes move between being verbal and non-verbal. This space is the ground upon which invention, storytelling, and identity building take place. Here, image-making is approached as a physical thinking process and objects become vehicles for memory and containers of place. For this exhibition, both Sarah and Douglas are working with materials and processes not typically found in their studio practices. For Sarah, whose photographs remain rooted in autobiographical narratives, this work is a move toward abstraction. Images, objects, and sounds are broken down into their simplest forms. Douglas’s work, which typically engages painting and abstraction, embraces representational imagery and storytelling. Looking to the landscape of Northern Louisiana for subject matter and inspiration, Douglas welcomes play, material exploration, and the use of found objects into his studio practice for the first time.
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Won't Lovers Revolt Now @ Whitespace Gallery curated by The Fuel and Lumber Company
The Fuel And Lumber Company Presents: Won't Lovers Revolt Now
works by Ben Estes, Rubens Ghenov, Iva Gueorguieva, Dana Haugaard, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Lisa Iglesias, Matt Phillips, and Sarah Smith.
Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Opening reception, Friday, June 22nd 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates, June 22nd-July 28th, 2018
Won’t Lovers Revolt Now is a group exhibition guest-curated by The Fuel and Lumber Company of Birmingham, Alabama (est. 2013). Borrowing its title from a take-away object/poster by Las Hermanas Iglesias, the exhibition presents the work of eight artists, working in diverse media - from equally diverse cultural and conceptual positions. The connective tissue that unites the work is a poetic approach to art making, one that simultaneously embodies the fragility and vulnerability of life in contemporary society, but does so with belief and conviction in the power of art to transform in the face of the oppressive forces that currently confront us.
Las Hermanas Iglesias, Won’t Lovers Revolt Now, limited edition 11 x 17 double-sided poster
Interview with Photo-Emphasis
PHOTO–EMPHASIS is a platform for showcasing current and diverse photography made by established and emerging artists. Through weekly features and interviews, we aim to highlight work by photography educators, students, and practitioners; providing an opportunity to feature personal projects and share information about their affiliated institution.
Our mission is to cultivate a resource that aids in promoting photographic art, education, and community, for those committed to and newly joining the medium.
PHOTO–EMPHASIS was founded by artists Alec Kaus and Rana Young, both University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni, in June 2017.
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AIR Serenbe: Fuel and Lumber Project Residency
AIR Serenbe: Fuel and Lumber Project Residency
May 29th - June 7th, 2018
AIR Serenbe, the nonprofit artist residency program of the Serenbe Institute, invests in artists of all disciplines. We provide the time and space necessary for the development of new work, as well as focused public programming that brings audiences in close contact with creative processes and practices.
Learn more about AIR Serenbe here
PHOTO-EMPHASIS: HATCH
HATCH
Group Exhibition Juried by Zora J Murff
January 2018
PHOTO-EMPHASIS
Vulgaris Magazine
Vulgaris Magazine
Where the Great Lakes Leap to the Sea
Written by Kira Braden
Streit House Space
Streit House Space
Fall 2017 Exhibtion
Artists Included: Daniel Coburn, Joesph Glover, Juan Madrid, Sarah Smith, Brian Henry, Ashley Kauschinger, Rana Young and Zora Murff, Danielle Head
DON'T TAKE PICTURES: Photo of the Day
DON'T TAKE PICTURES
Photo of the Day: September 23, 2017
Sharpless at Fluorescent Gallery
Sharpless
Douglas Degges + Sarah Smith
Fluorescent Gallery
Knoxville, TN
September 2017
