Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith continues to explore the relationship between pattern, nature and photography and to juxtapose subtle texture with thin washes of color over his preliminary, neutral palette on paper, canvas and wood. A mid-career painter, whose work has been widely exhibited in the Washington, Maryland and Virginia region, Jeffrey Smith has produced work during the last decade that has been described as "poetic…post-Greenbergian abstraction" in Art in America.

  • Any and All, 2003, oil and wax on paper, 88 x 80 inches
  • High Island, 2009, oil and wax on paper, 50¼ x 90 inches
  • Larger Than Life, 2003, oil and wax on paper, 88 x 80 inches
  • Mother Mirror, 2004, oil and wax on canvas, 65 x 72 inches
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Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith continues to explore the relationship between pattern, nature and photography and to juxtapose subtle texture with thin washes of color over his preliminary, neutral palette on paper, canvas and wood. A mid-career painter, whose work has been widely exhibited in the Washington, Maryland and Virginia region, Jeffrey Smith has produced work during the last decade that has been described as "poetic…post-Greenbergian abstraction" in Art in America.

Education

1984 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. A.B. Visual Arts
2004 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004 Two Natures   McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia
2002 Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
2000 District Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1996 Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
1994 Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
1992 de Andino Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1990 de Andino Fine Arts, Washington, DC

Selected Group Exhibitions


2010 Catalyst: 35 Years of Washington Project for the Arts, Katzen Art Center, American University
2010 Cream, WPA Auction, Katzen Art Center, American University
2010 More Photographs Than Bricks, Luther Brady Art Gallery, GW University
2008 Collectors Select, Arlington Arts Center
2006 PhotoGenesis, McLean Project for the Arts, Emerson Gallery
2006 East West, Remix, Arlington Arts Center
1996 Reclamation Crosscurrents ‘96, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
1995 Three Visions, 20th Anniversary Art Auction, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1994 The Tree, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, Washington, DC
1993 The Far Light, Washington College, St. Mary's, Maryland, and Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania
1992 Wholism, New Space Gallery, Eugene, Oregon
1991 Evocative Abstraction, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC. Curated by John Figura
1991 Organic Abstractions, Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode Island
1990 Other Rooms: 14 Sculptural Installations at the Morgan Annex, The Kunstraum, Washington, DC
1990 Options 1990, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Selected Collections

George Washington University, Washington DC
The Norfolk and Southern Railroad Collection
A. T. Carney, Inc.
Artery Organization
The Adagio

Publications

1997 Joe Shannon, Jeffrey Smith at Addison/Ripley, Art in America, May.
1996 Andrea Pollan, Jeffrey Smith, Recent Paintings, Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC. Exhibition catalog.
1994 Paul Richards,  The Canvas of Dreams   The Washington Post,  September 9
1994 John Figura, Machiko Oyama  The Tree, Part I   Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA
1993 Lynn Schmidt, Department of the Interior, Human/Nature, Ellipse Arts Center. Exhibition catalog.
1993 Lenore Miller, Department of the Interior, Human/Nature, The Washington Review, August/September.
1993 Andrea Pollan, Lingua Pittura: Painting's Evolving Agendas, McLean Project for the Arts. Exhibition catalog.
1993 J.W. Mahoney   Lingua Pittura: Christopher French, Inga Frick, Greg Hannan, Raimundo Rubio, and Jeffrey Smith, Art Papers, September/October.
1992 J.W. Mahoney, Jeffrey Smith at de Andino Fine Arts, Art in America, October.
1991 Alice Thorson, Transcend-dance, The City Paper, September 29.
1990 Michael Welzenbach, Non-Stock 'Options', The Washington Post, January 17.
1990 Washington Project for the Arts, Options 1990. Exhibition catalog.

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Jackie Battenfield - "Field Notes"
Open April 21st to June 2nd

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