Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Antillean, an exhibition of new work by Paul Anthony Smith, continuing his exploration of how memory, both personal and historical, can shape the present and fragment the past. This body of works stems from photographs Smith made during Carnival festivities in Trinidad and Tobago from 2020 to 2023 — departing from the still images, these paintings combine a documentary technique with that of painterly expression, rupturing time and disrupting photographic continuity in a formal, at times even compositional, way, as he figuratively interprets how we store information and process events as memory.