Joel  Smith Resume' 

Artist Statement

My painting goal is to order symbolic fragments into a state of pure painting. They are not concerned with a description of the seen world, rather they are involved with the mystery of the human experience. Our ambiguities and contradictions are isolated into a pictorial form that can be contemplated; a form where multiple meanings may be examined, where shifting states of consciousness are engaged. My oil paintings do not represent emotion. They transcend it.


Collections

• Museum of Modern Art, New York
  
• Tate Gallery, London
  
• Post Museum, Berne, Switzerland
  
• California Art Museum, Oakland
  
• Otterbein College
  
• Davenport Museum
  
• Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
  
• Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
  
• Musee de Quebec, Canada
  
• National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
  
• Pratt Art Institute
  
• Amoco Corporation
  
• Washington Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.
  
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
  
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  
• University of Nevada, Reno
  
• Springville Art Museum, Utah
  
• Lake Forest College
  
• Koener Foundation, Simon Fraser University
  
• Mt Mercy College, Iowa
  
• Brigham Young University
  
• Monmouth College
  
• Pocatello Public Library, Idaho
  
• Western Illinois University Recital Hall
  
• Walter Hopps
  
• Jesse Robison
  
• Bernd Marguart
  

Instruction Experience

• Ohio State University
  
• University of Texas
  
• University of California, Berkeley
  
• University of Idaho
  
• Western Illinois University
  
• University of Victoria, Canada
  
• Simon Frazer University, Canada