Meet the artists featured in our current Mallory/Wurtzburger Galleries, Colleen Couch and Dolph Smith!

In 2023, Couch began archiving Smith’s studio, files, slides, and art collection. She found the experience newly inspirational for her own practice as a sculptural papermaker. It also helped her to see the impact of Smith’s long and innovative career. Using what Couch found in these archives as a starting point, the joint exhibition Walk in the Light showcases the arc of Smith’s oeuvre through drawings, paintings, and artist’s books; includes new works by Couch inspired by Smith and his devotion to his beloved wife Jessie (1935 – 2020); and features two recent collaborations by Couch and Smith working together as papermakers, family, and friends.

Walk in the Light is on view now through June 29.