
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












