Lucien Smith

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

Life

Smith studied at the New York art school Cooper Union, graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts ( BFA ) from. He was highly regarded in the New York art scene in early 2014 and achieved at auctions there and in London awards for his works of more than £ 250,000 sterling, after they had been assessed before the auction with about £ 40,000 sterling.

Style and method of production

Smith used, among other found materials ( objets trouvé ) or detritus (waste ) and combines them with his pasty color jobs to collagen by type of Dadaism. Other works are reminiscent of those of Tachism.

For his Rain Paintings from the year 2011, which he established in his rain - factory, he used fire extinguisher filled with paint for application to the canvases were not prepared.

Works

  • 2011: Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree.
  • 2012: Feet in the Water ( auction house Phillips).
  • 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).

Solo Exhibitions

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