Howard Smith

WORKS

Ausstellungsansicht / Exhibition view

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

Foto: Simon Vogel

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

MEDIA

EXHIBITIONS

BIOGRAPHY

1943 geboren in Chicago, IL (USA) / born in Chicago, IL (USA)

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

 

Ausstellungen / shows (Auswahl / selection)

2024
Howard Smith: Less and More, College of Staten Island, NY (USA)
Art Gallery at the College of Staten of IslandWork in the Garden, Kunstraum K634, Köln

2020
Howard Smith – No End in Sight, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, 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, NY (USA)

2016
Howard Smith – Micro/Macro, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY (USA)

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

2014
The…Sea, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, PA (USA)

2013
Feuchte Hände, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln

2012
Work, Work, Work, Museum Liner, Appenzell (CH)

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

2010
Watercolors, Museum Liner, Appenzell (CH)

2009
Portrait De L’Artist en Motobicyclete, Musee des Beaux Arts, Grenoble (FRA)
Practice, practice, practice, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX (USA)
Dialoghi D‘-Accanto, Magazzini Di Palazzo Gatti, Viterbo (ITA)
Wintersalon, Bjorn Ressle Projects, New York, NY (USA)

2008
Howard Smith, Watercolors, Drawings, Multiparts, Aaron Galleries, Chicago (USA)
Howard Smith, Stroke and Structure, Bjorn Ressle Fine Art, New York, NY (USA)
Winter Salon – Works on Paper, Bjorn Ressle Fine Arts, New York, NY (USA)
Summer Blues, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, PA (USA)
In Light mit / with Tom Benson / Mel Davis / Andrew Graham / Howard Smith, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, PA (USA)

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

2006
Howard Smith – Paintings, Galleria Miralli, Viterbo (ITA)
Howard Smith – Works on Paper, Associazione Studio Fontaine, Viterbo (ITA)

2005
Howard Smith – Paintings, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno (ITA)

2003
Howard Smith – Paintings from Paris, Pine Bush & New York, Aaron Galleries, Chicago (USA)

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

2001
Galerie Artists, Galerie Patrik Froehlich, Zürich (CH)

2000
Howard Smith – Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Patrik Fröhlich, Zürich (CH)

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

1998
Paintings, The College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY (USA)
Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm (SWE)

1997
Howard Smith, New Paintings, Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm (SWE)
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, NY (USA) / Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY (USA)

1993
Packages, San Antonio Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (USA)

1990
Howard Smith – Drawings and Paintings, Marcia Hafif Exhibition Space, New York, NY (USA)
Painting for Itself – Julian Pretto Warehouse, New York, NY (USA)

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

1987
Simon/Neuman Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
After Twenty Summers, The Colorado Springs Fine, Arts Center, CO (USA)

1986
Howard Smith, Paintings and Drawings, Simon/Neuman Gallery, New York, NY (USA)

1985
Artists of the Shawangunk Region, Cragsmoor, New York, NY (USA)
Spatiotemporal, Simon/Neuman Gallery, New York, NY (USA)

1984
Radical Painting, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown (USA)

1983
New Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (USA)

1982
Unpunctuated, Grommets Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
The Edge of Night, Yves Arman Gallery, New York, NY (USA)

1981
Seven New York Painters, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville (USA)
Painting About Painting, Ben Shahn Gallery / William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ (USA)

1979
New Painting, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY (USA)

1978
Drawings, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, NY (USA)

1973
Howard Smith – Paintings and Watercolors, Whitney Museum Art Resources Center, New York, NY (USA)

1969
Group Exhibit, University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO (USA)

1965
Frank Boyden, Bruce Colvin, Howard Smith, The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO (USA)

 

Professuren / Lectureships

1988–2013
The College of Staten Island, City University of New York, NY (USA)

1996
Visiting Artist, Graduate Degree Program, New York University, Venice (ITA)

1995–96
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, NY (USA)

1993
Visiting Artist, Graduate Degree Program, New York University, Venice (ITA)

1985
The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (USA)

1978–80
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, NY (USA)

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