FOR MORE INFORMATION, CV/BIO/PDF,
WORKS FOR COMMISSIONS AND AVAILABLE
WORKS FOR SALE: magidson124@gmail.com

​

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