Exhibition History

Opening of R. R. Smith Solo Show, Instruments of Cubism, Main Gallery
R. R. Smith Solo Show, Instruments of Cubism,  Summer 2017

A solo exhibit, “Instruments of Cubism” was on display at the Staunton Augusta Art Center, June 30-August 5, 2017.

I participated in a joint exhibit at the Wayne Theater Gallery, Waynesboro, Virginia, “Art in the Twenty First Century,  March 1-May 27, 2018.

From August 2 to September 1, 2018  the solo show, Reflections on Jose Quadalupe Posada, Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera,  was held at the Shenandoah Valley Art Center.

From November 1-December 3, 2018 I had a solo show at the Spitzer Art Center, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Titled Cold War Follies, the show included collages and sculptures and dealt with the folly of Nuclear War.

Other Exhibits and Displays in Staunton, Virginia and Augusta  and Rockingham Counties, Virginia

Since moving to Staunton full time in 2012, I have had several exhibits in the gallery space at Black Swan Books and Records: The first was a collection of 101 collages based on (reassembling )the work of famous artists in Western History, titled Art History 101 (December 1, 2013-March 6, 2014); the second was a collection of  large collages titled “Selected Collages” (October 2, 2014-February 11, 2015; forty-seven dioramas showing  characters from the Wizard of Oz encountering contemporary American culture were exhibited at Black Swan during the Holiday season (November 2014-January 15, 2015); and a large-scale installation of a Fantasy Holiday Toy Chest November, 28, 2016-January 18, 2017. Twenty collages from the Beyond Max Ernst series were first exhibited at the Shenandoah Fringe Festival April 9-10, 2017, Staunton, Virginia. During the Holiday Season (November 16, 2016-January 6, 2017) the Wizard of Oz Dioramas were exhibited at the Augusta County  Library, Fishersville, Virginia. An Exhibit of “Book Boxes” were displayed  at the Staunton Public Library from April 2 to May 1, 2018. From December 1, 2018-January 31, 2019 Black Swan Books and Records   hosted an exhibit titled Dada and Surrealism: Modern and Postmodern Perspectives.  In addition,  a life-size winged angel (“Book Angel) made of typewriter parts, books and pencils) is on semi-permanent display in the bookstore’s front window.

On semi-permanent display at the Visulite Theater in Staunton, are twenty collages on the history of cinema.

Exhibits Outside of the Shenandoah Valley DaDa/Surrealism: A

Raise Your Voice, a national juried exhibition celebrating the 19th Amendment and Women’s Rights. My piece for the exhibit was a 72″ by 36″ triptych on the Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment.

Visual Collaboration with Happenstance Theater, exhibited at the Baltimore Theater Project, October 26-November 12, 2017.

Knowledge/Power/Power/Knowledge: A Critique of E. D. Hirsch, Jr.’s Conceptions of Cultural Literacy,” and the sculpture “Frobelian/Hegalian Synthesis,” American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Charlottesville, Virginia, November 2005.

Guest Curator, “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Exhibit of the Georgia Negro, Paris 1900, January 1, 2005-June 31, 2005.”  African American Panoramic Experience Museum (APEX), Atlanta Georgia. The exhibit was a reconstruction of the photographs and charts exhibited by Du Bois at the Paris 1900 International Exposition.

Guest Curator, “Signs of Andrew,” July 15-December 15, 2002, University of Miami, Otto G. Richter Library. 29 photographs of signs spray-painted on homes in the Country Walk housing development after Hurricane Andrew. A website for this exhibit is available at:
http://digital.library.miami.edu/andrew/html/signs_of_andrew.html

“Counter Cultural Literacy: A Multimedia Response to E. D. Hirsch,” American Educational Studies Association Meeting, November 1, 2001, Miami, FL.

“Einstein’s Brain” (assemblage/construction) and selected Wizard of Oz “book boxes,” included in the “Secret Spaces of Childhood,” exhibition at the Residential College Art Gallery and Benzinger Library, University of Michigan, November 13-December 14, 1998.

Guest Curator with Asterie Provenzo, “Centennial Exhibit of the Dade County Public Schools (1885-1985),” Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Spring and Summer, 1985).

“Golden Mean Blocks” (Designed by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.) exhibited at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 15, 1979-September 9, 1979.

“Golden Mean Blocks” (Designed by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.) exhibited as part of “Child’s Play,” an exhibition selected from entries to the Arango International Design Competition: Educational Toys, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, March 8, 1979-April 15, 1979.