I Painted Over Andy Warhol #14 Print

Mel Smothers is an American contemporary artist born in the west coast of the USA in 1947. Smothers evolved as an artist in the Pop Art America during the 60's and 70”s, working alongside his contemporary Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud. Thiebaud would later become Smothers’ graduate professor, and a forefront figure of the American Pop Art. Smothers is well established in the USA with having held numerous exhibitions, featured in museums and gallery collections, participated in art fairs and art projects. Smothers has exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles as well as art fairs in Brussels, Monaco, Singapore, Berlin. Six museum collections, MFA University of Idaho, and taught at University of California at Davis, University of Nevada at Lake Tahoe, University of Idaho at Moscow. In 2006 he was honored with selection by Cooper-Union to exhibit in the Emerging Artists of the Year Exhibition in New York City.