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Artists
Lewis Smith
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Prima Materia
Silo Exhibit
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Heuco Mundo
Silo Exhibit |
Editorpha
Silo Exhibit |
Aurora
Silo Exhibit
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Burn Off
Acrylic, acid, metal,
rubber on panel
21" x 21"
Private Collection
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Metaphysical Battery
Oil, acrylic, wax, cement,
graphite, photos on panel
24"x 24" |
San Ygnacio
Oil, acrylic, wax, acid,
earth, lead on canvas
22"x 22"
Private Collection |
Starry Night
Acrylic, acid earth,
metal on panel
26" x 28"
Private Collection |
Time Arrow
acrylic, acid,
metal on panel
21" x 21"
Private Collection |
Nine Fold Reversion
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LEWIS SMITH
Bio
Lewis Smith was born in Houston, Texas in 1956 and lived there for three years until moving to the piney woods of Tomball, Texas, roaming the quiet forests until being transplanted into the industrial ghetto of east Houston at the age of eight. He traded roaming the woods for roaming the gothic landscape of suburbia. Odd jobs as a machinist in his father’s shop, sterilizing soil and potting ivy at a plant farm, at night playing drums in a rock band to make money for art school, painting profusely. Graduated from Channelview High School in 1974, then on to study commercial and fine art. Bounced from job to job, designing billboards, photo retouching, sign painting, machine shop, until the digital age caught up with him. In 1984, training in Boston for digital pre-press computers imported from Israel, caught up in the digital revolution; thinking there was a truth of some kind there. Not finding it, joined a missionary work camp to Lima, Peru to build tiny houses, assist medical staff, taking clothes and eye glasses to people who had none; six more trips to the west desert coast of Peru, finding only parts of truth. On a cold March night in 1986, he checked in to the Sunnyside Motel in New York, using the small room as a studio for six months while churning out minor editorial art, and the late edition, at Newsday during the lobster shift. Three years of New York winters, and the newspaper business, compelled him to return to a warmer climate, preferably one with less humidity, seeking the regionalist inclination that had presented itself while in New York and finding it upon arrival in San Antonio in 1989. The perfect respite from New York. As if by queue, he met his soul mate that same year, married, started a design firm and art gallery with his wife Clare, traveled to Mexico, Europe, Peru (one last time), and China. The latter to obtain their daughter Jolie Xiaoai. Much joy and pregnancy along the way, six months later daughter number two, Ellie Rihn. Two years off to learn how to be a parent and then, more painting.
Education
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Personal study with Dutch classical painter, Jan Maters*, 1970-1974
- Lowell Collins School of Art, Houston, 1974
- Texas Academy of Art, Houston, 1976-1978
- Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, 1982
Selected Exhibits
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Stanfield Gallery, Houston, Texas, GROUP SHOW, 1984
Mother Dog Museum of Modern Art, Houston, Texas, 1987 – 1989- NoHo Gallery, New York, CO-OP GROUP SHOW, 1989
- Nueva Street Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, 1992 – 1993
- Eclectik Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1993 – 1994
- Studio Gallo, San Antonio, Texas, 1996 – 2000
- Wong Spot Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, 4x4 OR MORE, 2000
- Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain, SMALL IS BIG, 2001
- Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, 2003 - 2005
- Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy, December 2007
*Jan Maters, born Netherlands 1904, trained at the Royal Academy of the Fine Arts in the Netherlands and was one of a team of thirteen artists selected to assist in the restoring of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper fresco.
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