CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/22/2018

Swept up by a feeling of awe: Shinique Smith in 'Four Generations'

"I began 'Majesty' (pictured) after my first trip to Iceland, during which I went glacier walking and experienced the northern lights. The aurora borealis and the primordial landscape, the fairy-tale-like energy of the place, were within me when I started it. Fuschia and green were there when I closed my eyes, so I started with those colors and allowed myself to be swept up by a feeling of awe." – Shinique Smith, in conversation with Jen Mergel, Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art, a staff favorite for Black History Month and the companion publication to Solidary & Solitary, on view at the Nasher Museum in Durham, North Carolina, through July 15.