Kerrie Smith

Kerrie Smith is a painter and photographic artist and designer whose work captures patterns in nature. Born in England she has exhibited throughout USA at galleries and museums including Los Angels, New York, Brooklyn, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Las Vegas, Palm Springs. Smith amalgamates digital photography combined with layered painting techniques. Her vibrant works conveys a visual language of patterns she discovers in nature appearing vividly real inspired by California and our changing planet that she discovers and records on her many walks and travels in the wilderness and other natural areas.

Kerrie Smith is a Los Angeles-Santa Barbara based artist working and currently exhibiting her artwork in Southern California. Originally from England, she graduated with a BA with Honors in Theater and 3-D Design and worked as a theater designer in England, France, Holland and the United States collaborating with directors/designers Richard Eyre, Pamela Howard OBE, Ralph Koltai OBE, John Tillinger and John Wells.

Smith moved to California and founded a non-profit organization named Art Walk for Kids/Adults with outreach programs for artists with disabilities. She also created art curriculum approved by the Santa Barbara County Art Commission for at-risk kids and the Hope District Schools. Her programs received Congressional Awards from Assembly Woman Lois Capps and Congresswoman Hannah Beth Jackson.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

President: Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Executive Arts Council, Santa Barbara CA. www.westmont.edu

Member: Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, CA www.nationalwca.org

Member: National Museum of Women in The Arts. www.nmwa.org

Member: Los Angeles Art Association, CA. www.laaa.org

Member: The Abstract Art Collective, Santa Barbara CA. www.abstractartcollective.com

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MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2021 | Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara

2020 |Westmont Ridley Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA, Tri-County. Juried Exhibition, Time & Memory. Juror Christopher Miles.

2019 | San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA, Juried Show Brushstrokes, Juror Jerry McLaughlin

2019 | Westmont Ridley Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA, Tri-County. Juried Exhibition, Body & Soul. Juror Roxanne Sexauer.

2019 | Palm Springs Art Museum Palm Desert, CA. Artists Council Inaugural Exhibition, Metamorphosis. Jurors Alma Ruiz and Mary Ingebrand-Poland.

2018 | Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA, Arts Council Exhibition. Creative Hands. By Invitation.

2018 | Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang CA. Nature Abstracted, Juror’s Nathan Huff and Stacy Otte-Demangate. Juried Show.

2018 | Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA. Annual Tri- County Juried Show, Night & Day! Juror by Bob Alderette.

SOLO SHOW 2018

2021 GraySpace Gallery Santa Barbara CA

2018 | Faulkner West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA. Equipoise an Exploration of Color Light & Nature.

AWARDS

2020 | ArtSEE Annual Art Show, Santa Barbara CA. Curated/Juror Mariko Tabar. Jurors Choice Award

2019 | San Luis Obispo Museum of...