Her drawings take cues from nature and instances of non-verbal communication throughout time—the gesture of a woman’s hand in a centuries-old portrait, a rebel plant pushing through the sidewalk, a pause in a film—and look at the dialogue between what is said and what is shown. The resulting artworks blend cycles of beauty, overwhelm, collapse, and lightness together into atmospheric landscapes that mirror the emotional or mental states that she accesses during the drawing process. Accumulations of pencil marks become archives of labor and care, and the heavy handed erasures are physical reminders to let go to make space for the future.
The artist's work has been exhibited internationally including at Ivester Contemporary, (Austin, TX); Neue House (New York, NY); Galerie Asterisk* (Amsterdam, NL); Women & Their Work (Austin, TX); Galerie Visavu (Woudrichem, NL); and Project Space (Salem, OR). In 2019 Smith was awarded a residency at 100W Corsicana in Corsicana, Texas.