Philip Smiley's work is inspired by the conflict he perceives between his rural backwater upbringing in the mountains of Virginia and his present urban setting, New York. This results in strange, intricately woven landscapes where nature morphs into anatomical and embryonic human-like forms. The narratives and sub-narratives in the works are painstakingly woven through a web of obsessive detail, some suggesting the boredom and the isolation of unpopulated physical space, others a perverse melding of both natural and urban phenomenon with the human animal. Through the creation of what the artist refers to as "ink islands" Smiley builds elaborate and haunting images of extraordinary detail that tend to unsettle upon close inspection.

The exhibiiton runs from July 18. For more information contact johnpaul@dazedgroup.com