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DAVID R. SMYTH

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The art of David Smyth can not, in any respect, negate its affinities with the tradition of the American abstract expressionism and particularly with action painting. The artist’s approach to the understanding and to the use of collage seems to stem from his personal artistic level and his presence in the contemporary environment. It is a kind of psychological presence in the environment; not only a reaction to, but also a reflection upon it, that is devoid of every kind of literary symbolism. It is collage in all its fullness and sumptuousness of addition and subtraction, of accumulation and distribution of space. But before mastering space, he lays out a king of rough orientation grid that is even more vague than the structure of the canvas which the artist challenges again and again. The grid provides that inspirational element which commits and at the same time liberates the painter in terms of accumulating the constant flow of new images.




SOLO EXHIBITIONS



2018  World Cup Project  - Association with Magidson Fine Art - USA, Europe


2017  Galerie Lukas Feichtner, Paintings and Installations, Vienna, Austria


2016  Galerie Gabriel, "Last Picture Show", Vienna, Austria


2012  Kunst-Service,  "Recent Works", Vienna, Austria


2000  Gallery Clerc, Lausanne, Switzerland



AWARDS​



Georgetown University Visiting Artist - Washington D.C. - 1995


The Art Institute of Chicago Visiting Artist - Chicago, Illinois - 1985


Carnegie Mellon Visiting Artist - Pennsylvania - 1983


Who´s Who in America - Washington D.C. - 1982


Who´s Who in American Art - Washington D.C. - 1978


New York Council of the Art Fellowship - New York - 1978


Tamarind Institute Fellowship - New Mexico - 1977


Richard Rice Jenkins Memorial Price - Art Institute of Chicago - 1972


George D. Brown Travelling Fellowship - Art Institute of Chicago - 1968


Skowhegan Fellowship - Skowhegan, Maine - 1964

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