Lucien Smith

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Lucien Smith (born April 15, 1989 in Los Angeles , California , USA ) is an American artist who lives and works in Tribeca , Manhattan .

Life

Smith studied at the New York Art School Cooper Union and graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). He was highly regarded in the New York art scene in early 2014, fetching prices of more than £ 250,000 for his works at auctions there and in London, after having been estimated at around £ 40,000 before the auctions. In the world of collectors, his works are counted among those whose prices are driven up by so-called art flipping .

Style and manufacturing method

Among other things, Smith uses found materials ( objets trouvés ) or detritus (waste) and combines these with his pasty paint applications to form collagen in the style of Dadaism . Other works are reminiscent of those of Tachism .

For Smith's Rain Paintings from 2011, which he produced in his rain factory , he used fire extinguishers filled with paint to apply to canvases that were not prepared. In the Camo Paintings of 2014, camouflage textiles are showered with paint.

Works

  • 2011: Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree .
  • 2012: Two Guys and a Girl .
  • 2012: Feet in the Water (Phillips auction house).
  • 2012: Two Sides of the Same Coin ( Sotheby’s , London); Acrylic paint on canvas, 243.8 cm × 182.8 cm.
  • 2012: Secret Lives of Men ( Christie's , London).
  • 2013: Nature is My Church (Salon 94).
  • 2014: Camo Paintings .

Solo exhibitions

  • 2011: Imagined Nostalgia , Cooper Union, New York City, USA.
  • 2012: Seven Rain Paintings , OHWOW, Los Angeles, California USA.
  • 2013: Nature is My Church , Salon 94, New York City, USA.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is Lucien Smith anyway? in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on February 16, 2014, page 25
  2. ↑ There is Speculoos in Welt am Sonntag from May 18, 2014, page 50
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Lucien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California, USA