Blu Smith

Blu Smith was born in Kamloops in 1968 and grew up in Vernon, B.C. Canada.
As a young man he moved to Victoria and completed his bachelor of fine arts at the
University of Victoria in 1993. Victoria B.C. is where Blu lives and works with his
wife and growing young family.
His mature style as an abstract painter began as an exercise to free himself from
the technical restraints of realism. Non representational abstract became a
creatively freeing direction that evolved into his unique voice as an artist. "My
work has always been predominantly non-representative but based from organic
shapes with strong ties to nature. The organic structures are balanced with
cavernous spaces and are filled with light and glow with an atmospheric quality.
This group of paintings is really about the diversity of two different states and the
transitions between the two. The real interest lies in bridging the gap between
structure and space."
His early influences included the abstract expressionists of the New York School.
Most notably of these artists were Willem DeKooning, Mark Rothko and Robert
Motherwell.
Blu has exhibited his work throughout Canada, the US and Europe for several years.

Solo exhibits
2016 Nov. Avenue Gallery, Victoria Canada
2016 Feb. Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancouver Canada
2015 Mar. The Avenue Gallery, Victoria Canada
2014 September- Avenue Gallery, Victoria
2014 February- Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancouver
2013 September- Webster Galleries, Calgary
2013 February - The Avenue Gallery, Victoria
2011 March- The Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria
2010 April- Gallery at Matticks Farm, Victoria
2008 February- On Canvas Gallery, Victoria
2004 November- Hambleton Fine Art, Vancouver
2002 August- Signature Spaces, Victoria
2001, August- Romano Deco, Victoria
1993, Pop, Vancouver

Selected Group exhibits
2012 December- "Red Dot" Art Fair , Miami Fl, USA
2012 March- "Artistic Pairings" Blu Smith and Ron Parker, Avenue Gallery,
Victoria
2012 February- "Transcending Reality", Webster Galleries, Calgary Ab
2011 September- "Go Big or Go Home", Avenue Gallery, Victoria
2010 September- "Art in Cognito" Vancouver school of Art, Victoria
2010 February- Nevada Museum Of Fine Art, Las Vegas
2009 December- Florence Biennale, Florence,Italy
2009 February- View St Gallery, Victoria
2008 December- "International Contemporary Masters", California
2008 October- "Transform Art",