76.2 x 101.6 cm
New York, NY - C24 Gallery presents Reminisce, a selection of paintings by Roxa Smith. Grounded in the celebration of day-to-day life, Smith translates still life paintings and familiar landscapes into an intimate language of joy.
Smith approaches each painting as a personal vignette, where domestic spaces and the objects within them become markers of memory. Her works take recognizable scenes: table settings, floral arrangements, lived-in interiors, public spaces, coastal and urban vistas, and gently shift them, transforming the familiar into something newly seen. In these works, memory and place intermingle; the paintings do not document moments and objects as they were, but as they are remembered.
The viewer is invited to navigate oscillating spatial planes, patterned surfaces, and skewed perspectives that playfully disrupt immediate recognition. Smith's use of vibrant color and intricate patterning imbues these everyday environments with warmth: a softness that holds space for nostalgia, longing, and the quiet tenderness of lived experience. In doing so, her paintings become acts of remembrance: honoring the domestic, the intimate, and the ordinary moments that shape us.
