Explore The Art Of Adam Parker Smith

Join The Watermill Center on July 30 for “STAND,” its annual summer benefit, and explore the work of American artist Adam Parker Smith. The installation, mounted in collaboration with The Hole, highlights his latest series of works in “Standing on the Moon.”

“The shapes and tones of the sculptures evoke an otherworldly sense of being, appearing as if they might contain alien life-forms or function as gestation pods,” explained Smith in a statement. “Resonating with historic burial rites as well as sci-fi aesthetics, the works ruminate upon the timescales and global pathways along which these synthetic materials move.”

Adam Parker Smith works with sculpture, video, assemblage, collage, and what he calls “a mixture of animated and static painting,” or paintings that have a mechanized component. Crafted in response to tremendous global loss, Smith’s “Sarcophagi” are symbolic gestures of lamentation at a time when public commemorations of death were strikingly absent.⁠ Smith currently lives and works in Brooklyn, where he is included in solo exhibitions at The Hole Gallery NYC.

“STAND,” The Watermill Center’s annual summer benefit, celebrates the work of international artists through an engaging and dynamic evening. The event is Saturday, July 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. and it unites the worlds of art, theater, design and fashion to raise funds in support of year-round programming. The Watermill Center is at 38 Watermill Towd Road in Water Mill. For more information, visit watermillcenter.org.