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
Instruction Experience
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
