, BORN IN 1985

 

There is no clean way to explain what ARTSMITH does. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.

Born in Southern California and raised in the Texas Hill Country. Molded by adventure into something resembling an identity crisis — which is to say, a Surf Cowboy with a paintbrush. Season with a 90's childhood, an honorable hitch in the Navy, and the electric hum of the digital age. The result is a vibrant blend of layered chaos.

Abstract expressionist landscapes that look like weather systems arguing with each other. Bold, female-dominant figures welded out of futurist machinery, thrown into the ring against the raw, unbothered force of nature. Balance, it turns out, is a full-contact sport.

Sports legends, historical ghosts, and pop culture icons show up uninvited and wander through like they own the place. For the length of a painting, they do.

It is loud. It is unafraid. It does not ask permission. Don't expect it to slow down anytime soon.

    - Hunter S. Thompson

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