Howard Smith

WORKS

WF 96, 1996
Öl auf Leinen / Oil on linen
148 x 131,5 cm

AC, 1996
Öl auf Leinen / Oil on linen
147 x 131,5 cm

Watercolor Universe #, 1989–2019
Wasserfarbe auf Papier / Watercolor on paper
Verschiedene Größen / Various sizes

Warm above, 2010
Öl auf Leinen / Oil on linen
30,5 x 28 cm

Charcoal and reds, 2007
Öl auf Leinen / Oil on linen
28,8 x 28,8 cm

Vermilion, 2017
Öl auf Leinen / Oil on linen
71 x 61 cm

EXHIBITIONS

BIOGRAPHY

1943
geboren in Chicago, Illinois, USA / born in Chicago, Illinois, USA

lebt und arbeitet in New York, USA / lives and works in New York, USA

Ausstellungen / shows (Auswahl / selection)

2020
Howard Smith – No End in Sight, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, CH

2019
Howard Smith – No End in Sight, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
Janet Passehl | Howard Smith, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln

2018
Howard Smith 1 1 1. paintings and works on paper, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, USA

2016
Howard Smith. Micro/Macro, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, USA

2015
This Color Is You, Blackburn Gallery, New York, USA
Place, Syzygy, New York, USA
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA

2014
The…Sea, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA

2013
Feuchte Hände, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln

2012
Work, Work, Work, Museum Liner, Appenzell, Schweiz

2011-12
Watercolor, Stadtischen Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Howard Smith, Galerie Bismarck, Bremen

2010
Watercolors, Museum Liner, Appenzell, Schweiz

2009
Portrait De L’Artist en Motobicyclete, Musee des Beaux Arts, Grenoble, France
Practice, practice, practice, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
Dialoghi D‘-Accanto, Magazzini Di Palazzo Gatti, Viterbo, Italy
Wintersalon, Bjorn Ressle Projects, New York

2008
Howard Smith, Watercolors, Drawings, Multiparts, Aaron Galleries, Chicago
Howard Smith, Stroke and Structure, Bjorn Ressle Fine Art, New York
Winter Salon, Works on Paper, Bjorn Ressle Fine Arts, New York
Summer Blues, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
In Light, Tom Benson, Mel Davis,Andrew Graham and Howard Smith, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

2007
Howard Smith, Galerie Bismarck, Bremen
Fragile: feather to stone, The Culture Center, New York
February Show, Bjorn Ressle Fine Art, New York
Celebrating Our Visual Artists, The College of Staten Island, Staten Island
Some, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

2006
Howard Smith, Paintings, Galleria Miralli, Viterbo, Italien
Howard Smith, Works on Paper, Associazione Studio Fontaine, Viterbo, Italien

2005
Howard Smith, Paintings, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italien

2003
Howard Smith, Paintings from Paris, Pine Bush & New York, Aaron Galleries, Chicago

2002
Drawings, Galerie Patrik Froehlich, Zürich
Howard Smith, Watercolors, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italien
Installation of 7 groups of crayon drawings and watercolors,
Works on Paper at the 77th Regiment Armory, Aaron Galleries, New York
Mixed Medium II, Galerie Patrik Froehlich, Zürich
Howard Smith, New Work and Some Older, Galerie Rupert Walser, München

2001
Galerie Artists, Galerie Patrik Froehlich, Zürich

2000
Howard Smith, Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Patrik Fröhlich, Zürich

1999
Howard Smith at Kunst 99, Zurich, Galerie Rupert Walser, München

1998
Paintings, The College of Staten Island, New York
Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm

1997
Howard Smith, New Paintings, Galerie Konstruktiv, Tendens, Stockholm
Painting at the End of this Century, Howard Smith, Galerie Rupert Walser, München

1996
Zeichnungen, Galerie Rupert Walser, München

1995
Howard Smith, Galerie Rupert Walser, München
Group Exhibit, Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.and Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

1993
Packages, San Antonio Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

1990
Howard Smith, Drawings and Paintings, Marcia Hafif Exhibition Space, New York
Painting for Itself, Julian Pretto Warehouse, New York

1988
Three Artists: James Bishop, Paul Laster, and Howard Smith, Simon/Neuman Gallery, New York

1987
Simon/Neuman Gallery, New York
After Twenty Summers, The Colorado Springs Fine, Arts Center

1986
Howard Smith, Paintings and Drawings, Simon/Neuman Gallery, New York

1985
Artists of the Shawangunk Region, Cragsmoor, New York
Spatiotemporal, Simon/Neuman Gallery, New York

1984
Radical Painting, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown

1983
New Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

1982
Unpunctuated, Grommets Gallery, New York
The Edge of Night, Yves Arman Gallery, New York

1981
Seven New York Painters, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville
Painting About Painting, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey

1979
New Painting, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

1978
Drawings, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

1973
Howard Smith, Paintings and Watercolors, Whitney Museum Art Resources Center, New York

1969
Group Exhibit, University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado

1965
Frank Boyden, Bruce Colvin, Howard Smith, The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Paintings and works on paper have also been exhibited frequently between 1995 to 2007 at selected art fairs in Berlin, Chicago, Cologne, New York and Zurich by galleries representing the work.

Professuren / Teaching

1988-2013
The College of Staten Island, City University of New York

1996
Visiting Artist, Graduate Degree Program, New York University, Venice, Italien

1995-96
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

1993
Visiting Artist, Graduate Degree Program, New York University, Venice, Italien

1985
The School of Visual Arts, New York

1978-80
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

1968-69
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs

Auszeichnungen /Awards

2000-2013
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Residency

2012
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Grant

SELECTED PRESS

Catalogues and Publications
Selection

2019
Howard Smith, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Kunstmuseum Appenzell

Artikel / Articles
Auswahl / Selection

Eren, Reinhard: Howard Smith – Zeichnen zur Zeit, Teil X, in: Kunstforum International, Bd. 270, Oktober 2020, S. 222–225

Artner, Alan G.: Review of Howard Smith, Watercolors, Drawings, Multiparts at Aaron Galleries, in: Chicago Tribune, 05.12.2008

Fyfe Joe: Howard Smith – Review of exhibit at Bjorn Ressle Fine Art, in: Art in America, October 2008

Waltemath, Joan: Howard Smith Stroke and Structure, in: The Brooklyn Rain, März 2008

Philadelphia Inquirer, Review of Summer Blues, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Edith Newhall, Juli 2008

Lambert, Olympia: Oly’s Musings: Philly Road Trip, Review, In Light, Larry Becker Contemporary Art

Philadelphia Inquirer, Review of exhibit Some, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Edith Newhall, Juni 2007

Browne, Alix: Design Fall in: The New York Times Magazine, 2006

Artner, Alan G.: Review of solo Aaron Galleries exhibit, in: Chicago Tribune, 30.05.2003

Camper, Fred: On Exhibit: First Glimpse of Art Chicago, in: Chicago Reader, 09.05.2003

Fierabracci, Sylvia: Review of exhibit at Galleria Peccolo, in: www.exibart.com, September, 2002

Review of solo exhibit at Galerie Patrik Froelich, in: Handelszeitung, Zurich, 12.09.2001

Handelszeitung, Zurich, 24.11.1999

Review of solo exhibit at Simon/Neuman, in: Art News, April 1986

984/86
Issue, A Journal for Artists, 1-6 (Howard Smith, publisher)

McGill, Douglas C.: Art People, in: The New York Times, 05.10.1984

The New York Times, Expressionism Meets Minimalism, Grace Glueck, 18.02.1983

1981
Art in America, Getting on with Painting, Marcia Hafif, April 1981
Art in America, Monochrome: Definitions, Amplifications, Repercussions & more, Dezember 1981
Newark Star Ledger, “Painting about Painting”, Eileen Watkins, 25.01.1981
The New York Times, Art Sampler, David L. Shirey, 08.02.1981
Arts Magazine, Review of “Painting about Painting”, März 1981

Cover #4 (Winter ‘80 – ‘81) Conversation, 1980