The Chance Whale cata/zine

Baxter St is pleased to announce The Chance Whale, the first solo show of 2022 Baxter St Resident and interdisciplinary artist, Gwen Smith. The Chance Whale explores Smith's spiritual navigation from the womb to the ocean through linkages between a pre-emancipatory history of Blackness and the sea, ideas concealed in Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Smith's quest as a surfer.

The cata/zine includes an essay and Haikus written by Smith as well as the work in the show.

The exhibition featured a grid of 18 11 x 15 paintings and 16 framed 18 x 24 pieces hung forming a horizon or a banister as the gallery became a ship for work.

all works in the catalogue are full page reproductions and include a title / an excerpted fragment of text from Moby Dick.

• 64 pages

• 7 x 10 inches

• 80 gsm newsprint

• printed in England