David Smyth

(Click on thumbnails to enlarge)	David Smyth Education 1967-69 Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1964-67 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1964 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 1962-64 Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C. Contact David Smyth

MAY2 94 1994, 72"x66", acrylic m/m on canvas	Private and Public collections (selected) Museum of Modern Art, Milan, Italy Whitney Museum of Art, New York Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. University of Kansas Art Museum, Lawrence, KS Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY Morse Chain Division of Borg-Warner Corp., Ithaca, NY
RODEO 1994 72"x60", acrylic m/m on canvas	Introduction by Jennifer Hawkins David Smyth moved to New York over twenty years ago and while still in his twenties exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Alan Frumkin Gallery. It was after moving to the Ronald Feldman Gallery, in 1973, that Smyth began his first paintings in the "Letter Series". The series now includes small works on a surface of lead mounted on wood. The pieces read like a travel diary or sketchbook and are referred to as "Letters from Paris" and "Notes from New York". The plates shown here refer to the "Notes from New York" series and depict the large paintings on canvas.

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David Smyth

Education

1967-69 Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1964-67 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1964    Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1962-64 Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C.
 



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David Smyth

MAY2 94
1994, 72"x66", acrylic m/m on canvas

Private and Public collections (selected)

Museum of Modern Art, Milan, Italy
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
University of Kansas Art Museum, Lawrence, KS
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY
Morse Chain Division of Borg-Warner Corp., Ithaca, NY

RODEO 1994
72"x60", acrylic m/m on canvas

Introduction
by Jennifer Hawkins

David Smyth moved to New York over twenty years ago
and while still in his twenties exhibited at the Whitney Museum of
American Art and the Alan Frumkin Gallery.
It was after moving to the Ronald Feldman Gallery, in 1973,
that Smyth began his first paintings in the "Letter Series".
The series now includes small works on a surface of lead
mounted on wood. The pieces read like a travel diary
or sketchbook and are referred to as "Letters from Paris"
and "Notes from New York". The plates shown here refer to the
"Notes from New York" series and depict the large paintings on canvas.

OUT 23
1996, 60"x60",
acrylic m/m on canvas

SEA OF LOVE
Dez. 4. 1996, 66"x66" 
acrylic m/m on canvas

UNTITLED
1996, 72"x60"
acrylic m/m on canvas

A´TRAIN
1996, 72"x72"
acrylic m/m on canvas

Throughout this body of work, Smyth uses an underlying "grid" format, suggesting lined paper torn from a notebook complete with references to margins and the adhesive gum found along a sheet pulled from a pad. The New York series described Smyth's work as being "... one of the most elgant additions in recent times to the history of geometrical abstraction", and, certainly, during the period between 1982-89, Smyth used elements of geometrical abstraction as counterpoint in overlaying images associated with architecture, physics, maps, and language. In his recent re-venture into the "Letter series", Smyth has cast off the last remnants of literal imagery for a purely paintery aesthetic: the work embodies a miasmic rawness that absorbs the pulse, chaos, and beauty of the artist's environment in canvases rich in tactility and color.

WALKING/TALKING 1996
54"x54", acrylic, m/m on canvas

Individual exhibitions (selected):

Magidson Fine Arts, New York, 1997
Galerie Slama, Klagenfurt, Austria, 1996
Feichtner & Mizrahi, Vienna, Austria, 1996
Kass/Meridian Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1996
Magidson Fine Arts, New York, 1996
Magidson Fine Arts, Aspen, CO, 1995
Magidson Fine Arts, New York, 1995
Georgetown Fine Arts Gallery, Washington D.C., 1995
The Willow Gallery, New York, 1994
Galerie Slama, Klagenfurt, Austria, 1994
Galerie Keller, Paris, France, 1994
Robert Morrison Gallery, New York, 1993

VERONA
1997, 150"x150",
acrylic,m/m on canvas

BEGINNING OF TIME 1998
39"x39" acrylic
m/m on canvas

FALLEN ANGEL 1998
60"x96" acrylic
m/m on canvas

DEAD MAN WALKING 1998
72"x72" acrylic
m/m on canvas

Alan Brown Gallery, Hartsdale, NY, 1992
Robert Morrison Gallery, New York, 1992
New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 1991
Alan Brown Gallery, Hartsdale, NY, 1990
Robert Martin Gallery, New York, 1989
Alan Brown Gallery, Hartsdale, NY, 1988
Rhode Island Fine Arts Gallery, Kingston, RI, 1988
Genesis Center, New York, 1987
Keith Green Gallery, New York, 1987
Alan Brown Gallery, Hartsdale, NY, 1986
Marianne Deson, Chicago, IL, 1985
DuBelle Fine Arts, New York, 1984
Castle Bogner, Vienna, Austria, 1984
Ithaca House Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 1983
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY, 1982

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1998, 48"x48"
acrylic m/m on canvas

Ronald Feldman Fina Arts, New York, 1981
Ithaca House Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 1980
Ronald Feldman Fina Arts, New York, 1979
Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, New York, 1978
Marianne Deson, Chicago, IL, 1978
Ronald Feldman Fina Arts, New York, 1977
Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1977
Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington D.C., 1976
Marianne Deson, Chicago, IL, 1976
Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 1975
Ronald Feldman Fina Arts, New York, 1975
Ronald Feldman Fina Arts, New York, 1974

THE BRIDGE
1998, 54"x54"
acrylic m/m on canvas

Group exhibitions (selected)

Magidson Gallery, New York, 1994
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1994
Taha Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, 1993
Robert Morrison, Gallery, New York, 1993, 1992, 1991
The Tate Gallers, London, Great Britain, 1982

National Gallery, Washington D.C., 1976
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1976
Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1974
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, 1974
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. IL, 1972
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 1972

WIENER BRIEFE
1998, 60"x48",
acrylic, m/m on canvas

JUST ANOTHER SUNDAY 1998
60"x48"
acrylic, m/m on canvas

NOTES FROM NEW YORK1998
66"x66" acrylic
m/m on canvas

ABSOLUTELY ELSEWHERE 1998
 72"x72" acrylic
m/m on canvas

BAMBOO WALKER
2000, 100 x 100 cm,
acrylic, m/m on canvas

JULY 2000
200 x 200 cm acrylic
m/m on canvas

JUNE 2000
200 x 200 cm acrylic
m/m on canvas

PASSING LANDSCAPE 2000
290 x 275 cm acrylic
m/m on canvas

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