{"id":1516,"date":"2026-02-02T08:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:32:42","slug":"reformation-kim-smith-claudel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/reformation-kim-smith-claudel\/","title":{"rendered":"Reformation &#8211; Kim Smith Claudel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KSC_05_WEB.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KSC_05_WEB.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KSC_05_WEB-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KSC_05_WEB-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KSC_05_WEB-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reformation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kim Smith Claudel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Main Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 19 &#8211; May 9,&nbsp; 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reception: Thursday, March 19, 5:30 &#8211; 7 PM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Portland-based artist Kim Smith Claudel returns to Corvallis\u2014the site of her early formation as an artist at Oregon State University\u2014with <em>Reformation<\/em>, a solo exhibition that engages painting as an active, evolving practice rather than a fixed object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, Smith Claudel creates work that exists in deliberate flux. Her process-driven approach embraces the ephemeral, the decaying, and the mundane; building visual systems that resist completion. In <em>Reformation<\/em>, she brings this methodology into direct conversation with The Arts Center&#8217;s historic architecture, and her own formative years working in the space during college. Reformation is&nbsp; a process of re-forming material, as well as an act of challenging the rules we rarely question.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Artist Interview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>TAC curator, Jennie Castle had the pleasure of catching up with Kim Smith Claudel prior to the installation of\u00a0<em>Reformation<\/em>.\u00a0Take a listen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/claudel_mixdown.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Artist<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim Smith Claudel is an artist and&nbsp; visual designer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including a recent solo exhibition (<em>End Cycle<\/em>) at The Vestibule in Seattle. Other recent solo exhibitions include The Painting Center (NY), Mt. Hood Community College (OR), Carnation Contemporary (OR), KyotoBA (Japan).&nbsp; Recent residencies include Building 5 in Portland and the Boston Center for the Arts. She holds&nbsp; an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She received an MS in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, where she was a Learning Innovation Fellow for her research into hands-on learning for computation in early childhood. She is a member of Carnation Contemporary Gallery and WAVE artist collective. Smith Claudel&#8217;s interdisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, performance, and installation, consistently exploring the intersection of process, materiality, and personal narrative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland-based artist Kim Smith Claudel presents Reformation in The Art Center Main Gallery March 19 &#8211; May 9, 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","wds_primary_category":20,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartscenter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}