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Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to present Seeking Balance, an exhibition of new work by Debra Smith. The show marks the artist’s second solo show with the gallery.

This most recent body of work is the result of both an intuitive process, formed from years of working with historic textiles, and a mindful practice. Each work is an open expression, constructed in an extraordinary way - with hours of stitching, embedding layer upon layer of material. With the visual sensibilities of a painter, Smith manipulates stripes and forms shapes with a gestural, geometric abstraction. She intuitively …