Howard Smith “1 + 1 + 1 … paintings and works on paper”

Howard Smith “1 + 1 + 1 … paintings and works on paper”

Jane Lombard Gallery

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Jane Lombard Gallery presents Howard Smith: 1 + 1 + 1 … paintings and works on paper. This is the artist’s 21st solo exhibition, encompassing his substantial and vibrant body of work. By harnessing, light, expression and pigments, he fuses the material and sublime. Smith states, “My aim is to make art that is alive and breathes, which is visceral and yet has a sense of the ineffable. I would like to convey a sense of the magical in which a painting succeeds in going beyond its basic physicality and enters another realm.”

An abstract painter, Smith was a member of the Radical Painting movement in the 1980s, seeking to distill painting to its essence. True to the movement’s focus on intention and creation, he prioritizes the interaction between brushstroke and the canvas. The direction, velocity, and intensity of his brushstrokes have changed frequently during his career. His staccato marks transport viewers to a plane enveloped in vivid color.

Howard Smith (b. 1943, Chicago, IL) lives in Pine Bush, NY and works in New York City. Smith earned his B.A. from Colorado College in 1965 and went on to graduate school at Stanford University in 1965 & 1966. Smith has also resided in Maine, Massachusetts, Chicago, and Paris. He has taught at the University of Colorado, Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, New York University and CUNY College of Staten Island, where he continues to teach. His work has been exhibited at Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA; The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland; Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Kimmel Galleries, NYU, New York, NY; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France and Magazzini Di Palazzo Gatti, Viterbo, Italy. Smith has a forthcoming exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders in Germany next year.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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