Josh Smith

Born:
1976
Residence:
New York, New York, USA
Nationality:
American
Trust:
APT New York
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  • After six solo exhibitions with Luhring Augustine, Josh Smith, the painter known for his brushy images of nature and signs, is no longer on the New York gallery’s roster.

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  • The visitor to Josh Smith’s show at STANDARD (OSLO) is faced with 11 Grim Reapers painted in oil on canvas, all of them equipped with the customary black robe and scythe.

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  • Armory Week sees a dozen fairs pop up all across New York, and it always kicks off with a bang: the ADAA Art Show’s opening gala.

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  • On March 2, 2017, as part of its Contemporary Curated sale in New York, during Armory Week, Sotheby’s will be offering the very first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection. APT was founded in 2004 as a mutual assurance program providing long-term financial security for its member artists who deposit artworks with the trust over a 20-year period, and share the net proceeds from the sales. With 13,000 works, by 2,000 member artists, it is the largest private collection of global contemporary art in the world.

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  • Gagosian Gallery in New York is hosting an exhibition “Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975” that will be on view through February 25, 2017.

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  • Lisa Cooley Gallery, an influential Lower East Side space that opened on Orchard Street in 2008, has closed, sources tell ARTnews.

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  • If you look closely at the reproductions of Fredrik Værslev’s work and at the installation views here, you cannot but notice that there is something decidedly strange and funny about them.

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  • I’m an artist in my mid-twenties who has absolutely no formal education.

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  • Fredrik Værslev is this year’s Festival Artist. Acclaimed internationally for his sharp, intelligent and very contemporary approach to painting, his work consistently expands the possibilities and relevance of the medium today.

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  • Andy Warhol scholar and Whitney Museum of American Art Deputy Director and Senior Curator Donna De Salvo discusses one of Andy Warhol’s seminal paintings, Before and After, 4, in the gallery where it’s currently on view. Painted by hand in 1962, it was based on a plastic surgeon’s 1961 advertisement in The National Enquirer.

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  • Just a few days after returning from the Venice Biennale, New Museum curator Gary Carrion-Murayari was back on a boat. This time, however, he traded...

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  • The Generational: Younger Than Jesus sent me back to William Blake. In his Songs of Experience, he bids “Youth of delight come hither, / And see the

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • By now, the artist Josh Smith’s practice of turning his signature into the subject of his frenetic oil paintings is familiar.

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  • Rising art star Josh Smith, famous for painting his name over and over, obsessively, on abstract canvases, has a well-considered strategy for success.

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  • In her statement for "The Forever Now," the contemporary painting show on view at MOMA through April 5, 2015, curator Laura Hoptman makes a case

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  • Are ceramics, long relegated to the realm of craft, finally getting their due? Clay and porcelain works by artists including Josh Smith, Mai-Thu Perret

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  • Stay in Love is an exhibition about monomania and manual repetition. Bringing together a heterogeneous group of historical, established and emerging

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  • Rising art star Josh Smith, famous for painting his name over and over, obsessively, on abstract canvases, has a well-considered strategy for success.

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  • Luhring Augustine announces an exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by Josh Smith. This marks his fourth exhibition with the gallery and consists

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  • Ten years ago the late, great Pat Hearn teamed up with Matthew Marks for the brazenly titled Painting Now and Forever, Part I. Billed as a “highly

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  • This Week’s Visual Art: Jan 24-27: Gallery Openings, News, Reviews, and More

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  • You can’t help but feel there’s something cunning about the latest exhibitions from Josh Smith, currently being held simultaneously at Luhring Augustine

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  • For its first exhibition of 2011, the Brant Foundation Art Study Center took to Greenwich, CT to present the opening of Josh Smith's

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  • Despite his rising status in the art world, Josh Smith leads a humble life. He doesn't even have his own apartment.

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  • DSM-V, the exhibition’s title, is short for The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Hovering over this exhibition is a reflection on the collapsing distance between audience and artwork.

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  • Clone, doppelganger, reflection? American-born and Paris resident Sturtevant (born in Lakewood, Ohio) has been questioning the meaning of art and the traditional understanding of the artistic creation process for over half a century.

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  • The frantic, irrepressible mind that must reside in Josh Smith’s head comes alive in the artist’s voluminous new show.

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  • Concatenation. Signature, Seriality, Painting – a group show curated by Peter J. Amdam, currently on view at Blain|Southern, London – brings together

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  • Ten Emerging Artists at Auction this Week

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BIOGRAPHY
The work of Josh Smith is distinguished by his mastery of multiple mediums (including painting, collage, sculpture, book and printmaking, and ceramics), and his tendency to acknowledge trends in painting and sculpture by expressly upending them. His most iconic works are paintings that boldly feature his name as their subject; in recent years, the name has given way to motifs such as leaves, fish, skeletons, insects, ghosts, and sunsets. In selecting these rather arbitrary subjects and rendering them in a manner that is by turns aggressive, playful, repetitive, and oblique, Smith compels us to move beyond aesthetics towards a focus on process and looking.
 
Josh Smith (b. 1976) is from Knoxville, Tennessee and lives and works in Brooklyn. He has had several solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad at institutions such as the Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, and MUMOK, Vienna. He has also participated in important group exhibitions such as The Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Le Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse, ILLUMInations in the 2011 Venice Biennale, The Generational: Younger Than Jesus at the New Museum in New York, MoMA's The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, and most recently, Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, which showed at the Museum Brandhorst, Munich, and traveled to MUMOK, Vienna. His works are in numerous public collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, MUMOK, Vienna, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

 


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