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Mark T Smith is an artist born in 1968 whose work includes painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. His artistic statement expresses his desire to create neo-classical works that exhibit beauty, skill and revelation to ennoble the public. He cites influences like Picasso and Wilde, and quotes about his passion for art and the creative process. The document provides biographical details and lists exhibitions he has had in various cities. It promotes his artwork and includes an image of one of his sculptures.
Mts.presentation.2013.final
- 2. MARK T SMITH 1968 -
- 14. EARLY DAYS ¡°All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.¡± Pablo Picasso
- 17. LIFE ¡°I love it when a plan comes together.¡± Hannibal Smith
- 20. PAINTING ¡°Art can never really show us the exterior world. All it shows us is our own soul. The one world of which we have any real cognizance¡it is art, and art alone that reveals us to ourselves.¡± Oscar Wilde
- 22. ARTIST STATEMENT ¡°My work is a neo-classic counter-revolution to the emotionally vapid and endlessly self- referencing post-modern thought and artwork. The artwork exhibits the classic skills of drawing and painting with the balance of a modern mindset. I have always had a primary interest in the tactile experience of making beautiful expressions in the traditional forms of printmaking, sculpture, painting and drawing. My images are archetypal in nature, universal in appeal and message. My desire is to place the future of Art under the in?uence of: Beauty, Skill and Revelation. Throughout my career I have carefully sought out opportunities to display and apply artwork in a manner that will reach as many people as possible, while maintaining tight control on the quality and content of the artwork. I have spent my career participating in the numerically smaller but more in?uential circles of the galleries and museums; however, I ?rmly believe that artwork has a primary function to ennoble the public. In order to create an awareness and appreciation of the Arts, Art must be connected to our daily lives and must ?nd applications that engenders understanding and implants the desire to have the Arts as a permanent partner in the everyday experience of our lives¡±. Mark T Smith
- 39. SCLUPTURE ¡°Sculpture is the ?nal frontier for a painter and draftsman - ?nally to reach out into the world. The newness of the experience is intoxicating, the challenges exciting and fresh. The ?rst baby-steps into this world return me to the feeling that I had as a very young child making art. I am approaching this new expression with a renewed love of the creative process, the tabula rasa of a wise child and have fallen in love again with Arts' seductive forces¡±. Mark T Smith
- 47. EXHIBITIONS
- 53. M A R K T. S M I T H Exhibiting at paintings | sculpture | works on paper Hanneke Beaumont Chuck Close Salvador Dal¨ª David Drebin Helen Frankenthaler Frederick Hart Jasper Johns Roy Lichtenstein Joan Mir¨® Louise Nevelson Pablo Picasso Robert Rauschenberg James Rosenquist M a r k T. S m i t h Frank Stella Robert Swedroe Andy Warhol To m W e s s e l m a n n Wood Bull, Mixed-Media on Canvas, 40¡± x 32¡± 24667 Cedar Road | Cleveland Ohio | 216.382.7800 c o n t e s s a g a l l e r y. c o m
- 64. WASHINGTON DC ¡°One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors¡±. Plato
- 73. SKETCHBOOK ¡°A sketch is better than a long speech¡± Napoleon
- 85. PASSION
- 87. IRON MISTRESS
- 91. COMMISSIONS
- 103. PRINTMAKING
- 111. DRAWING ¡°Drawing. This is where every idea, project, thought, or expression starts for me. Drawing is the most direct, raw manner to present an idea. It can contain the simplest or most complex ideas. It can take the viewer on a direct or indirect journey; it can be a map to a destination or the destination itself. Drawing for me is as natural as breathing, as joyful and satisfying as sex, as mysterious as love and as transcendent as faith. For each subject matter that I approach, I always start with a drawing¡±. Mark T Smith
- 126. MIAMI
- 129. NEW YORK CITY
- 131. ¡°Art must offer something greater then mere criticism to land it somewhere closer to the soul, to the place where true art climbs inside of you and illuminates something within. Art should leave you breathless, amazed, wondering, perhaps even terri?ed or furious - art should bring you somewhere miraculous within yourself - somewhere you may not have ever known existed¡±. Mark T Smith