Speed Knows Nothing Without Fear
Bruno Smith
01/25/25 - 03/02/25
Ki Smith Gallery is pleased to announce Bruno Smith’s Speed Knows Nothing Without Fear
In Smith’s work, the apocalypse is an ongoing, overlapping process, a never-ending series of distinct but similarly dramatic (if ultimately anticlimactic) events, the extinction of the Neanderthal, 9/11, the financial crash of 2008, the feeling of the end of the world without the satisfaction of its finality.
So often in history, one culture’s annihilation is another culture’s incipience, making the significance of any apocalyptic event totally subjective within the ludicrous plotlessness of actuality. Smith uses the first, but now rarely used, image generating AI, Dall.E mini, to make his paintings. Does the first image-generating AI mark an end or a beginning in the timeline of human creativity?
For Smith, this ambiguity is generative. By inviting the AI into the art process, he turns out a bizarro-world version of the apocalypse as overlapping and excessive. Dogs made of flowers hit the Twin Towers. Melty-faced Steve Jobs peers at us from an alcove of fern-like plants and sand art spiderwebs. Various Neanderthals gaze upon various disappointing Eiffel Towers, two obsolete bodies sizing each other up.
Playing with the tools of our own demise in this permanently precarious stage, where it’s hard to distinguish the end of the world as we know it from the beginning of a new one
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Alius Bellis, 2025
14.5” x 16.5” x 2” , Resin, plexi, daisies, acrylic, inkjet on canvas, plywood, daisies
$3,500.00 (Excluding Sales Tax)
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Alius Marlborus, 2025
13” x 15” x 2” , Ceramic, inkjet print on canvas, fish tank pebbles $2,500.00 (Excluding Sales Tax) Bruno Smith
Homo Bannalis Tornacense, 2025 14.5” x 16.5” x 2” , Resin, plexi, daisies, acrylic, inkjet on canvas, plywood, doll eyes $3,500.00 (Excluding Sales Tax) Bruno Smith
Bovinus acta, non vera, 2025 14.5” x 16.5”x 2 ” , Resin, plexi, daisies, acrylic, inkjet on canvas, plywood, shark tooth fossils
$3,500.00 (Excluding Sales Tax) Bruno Smith
Alius Do You Creditis? (Believe), 2025
61.5” x 37.5” x 2.5” Inkjet print on canvas, acrylic
$10,000.00 (Excluding Sales Tax)
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cowboys & Mushrooms, 2025 15.5” x 12.5” x 1.75” Inkjet on canvas, cigarette butts, resin $2,100.00 (Excluding Sales Tax) Bruno Smith
Builtus Fordus Toughus, 2025
12” x 15.5” x 2” , Ceramic, acrylic, inkjet on canvas, flowers, plywood $2,500.00 (Excluding Sales Tax) Bruno Smith
Alius byrophyta (Cave Painting), 2025 14.5” x 16.5” x 2” , Resin, plexi, daisies, acrylic, inkjet on canvas, Plywood, coca cola bottles
$3,500.00 (Excluding Sales Tax) Bruno Smith
Porcus Bovinus, 2025 61.5” x 37.5” x 2.5” Inkjet print on canvas, acrylic $10,000.00 (Excluding Sales Tax)
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Did He Do It? Y/N (Y2K1), 2025
14.5” x 16.5” x 2” , Resin, plexi, daisies, acrylic, inkjet on canvas, Plywood, tech detritus
$3,500.00 (Excluding Sales Tax)
Bruno Smith
Bartus Mobilus, 2025
61.5” x 37.5” x 2.5” , Inkjet print on canvas, acrylic
$10,000.00 (Excluding Sales Tax)
Bruno Smith
Homo Fonos, 2025 14.5” x 16.5” x 2” Resin, plexi, daisies, acrylic, inkjet on canvas, plywood
$3,500.00 (Excluding Sales Tax)
Bruno Smith
Christian Science, 2025
10” x 14” x 2” , Inkjet on canvas, acrylic, plywood, ceramic
$2,300.00 (Excluding Sales Tax)
Bruno Smith
Homo Promptus Apocalipsis, 2025
61.5” x 37.5” x 2.5” , Inkjet print on canvas, acrylic
$10,000.00 (Excluding Sales Tax)
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Alius Cowboy Bath Time, 2025 9” x 14.5” x 2” Inkjet on canvas, plywood, ceramic $2,200.00 (Excluding Sales Tax) Bruno Smith
The View From Here, 2025
Inkjet on canvas, plywood, ceramic 12.5” x 15” x 2.5” $2,500.00 (Excluding Sales Tax)
Bruno Smith
Azolla Jobs (WWWeb), 2025 14.5” x 16.5” x 2” , Inkjet on canvas, acrylic, plywood, coupons, cedar $2,100.00 (Excluding Sales Tax)
Bruno Smith