Photo-constructions

Pine Street

Broadway-Broome

Seminary Stain

Laundry

Delancey Sunbacked

Credible Hulk

Third Avenue Junky

CLM4M Photo-constructions

CLM4M Ganged.  These photo-constructions each join 2 archival pigment prints in intersecting cylindrical planes, mounted on canvas/paperboard/acrylic resin, and show New York cityscapes with texts or images from Craig's List Men Seeking Men Personal online ads.  Around 24" wide, 2017.

Almost Anything

Johnson's Twink

Park Moon

Bus Stop Personal

Someone Safe

Rivington/Essex Sodom

Tight Ass

Brunch

Corner Teens

Cold Night

Bodily Fluid

1985 pinhole photo fiberglass constructions

submerge

limbs

web

kiss

rampart

goon

coital

lot

fight

kiss

glory

park

sting

Awnings & other 2016 paintings and drawings

DelanceySignpost

Delancey Sidewalk

                                                               Awning V oblique view

                                                              Awning V central view

                                                                          Awning IV

                                                                        Awning III

                                                                            Awning II

                                                                            Awning I

                                                                   Sunday Brunch

                                                                     Essex St Crawl

                                                                              Halal

                                                                      Bike Lock II

Colossus of Seward

Some New Work 2015

 Armor, 2015, oil on ragboard/canvas construction, 34x44x22"

 Austin Arrivals, 2015, oils, acrylics, woven textiles on ragboard/canvas construction, 38x 48x36"

 Booster II, 2015, oils on ragboard/canvas construction, 23x34x13"

 Booster III, 2015, oils, acrylics & woven textiles on ragboard & canvas construct, 40x33x18"

Father Sorting Meds, 2015, oils, acrylics & woven textiles on ragboard & canvas construct, 34x39x16"

Linked Writings

My essay for ART IN AMERICA on David Salle's class at the free Bruce High Quality Foundation University, which discusses Salle's idiosyncratic choice of writing gems--is linked here and part II here.

"Culture and Resistance", my review of Jonathan Moller's documentary photographs of repression in Guatemala, is linked here:  http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/books/smith/smith10-4-06.asp

My review of a survey of contemporary Islamic art at the Museum of Modern Art, "Looking for Islam" is linked here: http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/smith/smith3-15-06.asp

Most of my writings were pre-internet, and are listed in my full resume at this blog's bottom.  If not available at your library's periodicals archive, contact me for specific reviews.

"Defending Late Stella," my defense of Frank Stella's curvilinear work from the '80's onward, was published in the March 2016 ART IN AMERICA and will be online soon.

Paintings 2014

                                                                                                                                                                                      

Essex Crossing

 

Schooling III

 

Schooling

 

Midtown Eros

 

Studio Windows