"Concrete crumbles, digital dust. Static to sirens, build and construct."

Cycol Gallery is proud to present PIECES, a major new solo exhibition by Bisco Smith, opening July 30, 2026.

Conceived in response to an invitation to create an exhibition incorporating digital screens, Smith's instinct was to begin somewhere unexpectedly elemental. Rather than allowing technology to dictate the work, he turned to one of humanity's oldest building materials: concrete.

Painted with his distinctive gestural language before being shattered by hand, industrial concrete blocks become both medium and metaphor. Their fragmentation gives rise to sculptural forms that extend through large-scale paintings and immersive moving-image installations, carrying Smith's visual language from matter into light.

"Breaking concrete slowed everything down," Smith reflects. "In that space, I was reminded that behind every screen is something real: a place, a memory, a human life."

Guided by meditation and deeply informed by music, Smith approaches painting as a form of visual lyricism. Words emerge intuitively, dissolving and reforming with the cadence of a freestyle verse as language becomes gesture. Throughout the exhibition, embedded phrases and layered abstraction explore the shifting relationship between permanence and impermanence, destruction and creation.

Beginning with concrete and unfolding through painting, sculpture, and moving image, PIECES traces a journey from matter to light without losing its human origin.

In an age defined by acceleration, distraction, and division, Bisco Smith creates space for attention—for slowing down and looking closely at how the act of making carries the possibility of renewal.

Opening July 30, 2026
Cycol Gallery

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