Joshua Smith

Working in a vortex of color and often on over twenty varying sizes of canvas at a time, Smith, not unlike the dreams he credits with inspiring his work, paints in a fever of remembrance, memory, mysticism and metaphor.

Taking clues from architecture and religion, Smith’s paintings are a reflection of art and faith. Taking clues from architecture and religion, Smith’s paintings are a reflection of art and faith. The US American master of oil painting Joshua Smith translates his imagination on to canvas. Through the medium of painting, Smith developed his own language which speaks of fantasy and nature, blending surrealism into the physical world, with playful imagery and fragments of playful subject matters. His paintings on canvas often presents landscapes with chairs, birds, butterflies and clouds, an imaginaire world where beings are either dreaming or existing in a parallel world, a virtual universe in which dreams and reality fuse.

Joshua Smith reminisces the childhood experiences, where we fantasize our surroundings, where the sky is the limit. In this sense Smith’s work is like a journey through some unknown metaphysical reality, in belief of the omnipotence of the (day) dream. As if to emphasize the landscapes, birds...

2002-2004 MFA
Painting, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

1996-2000 BFA
Laguna College of Art and Design, LCAD Laguna Beach, CA

Selected EXHIBITIONS:
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2022 "From the Chrysalis" solo show
CFA Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, La Jolla

2021 "Bloom" Bev's Fine Art, Raleigh, NC

2019 New Work
CFA Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, La Jolla
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2018 LAART Show LA Convention Center
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2017 Arts Collide Bev's Fine Art, Raleigh, NC
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2016 LAART Show los angeles convention center