Jack richard smith artist biography

1950    Born in Fremont, MI

 

Education:

1968-1969       Columbus College of Art, City, OH

1970-1971       Instituto Allende at San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

1971-1972       Thomas Jefferson College, Philadelphia, PA

 

Awards:            Foregoing Achievement Award, Peter and Madeleine Martin Center for the

                        Creative Arts, San Francisco, CA

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2011-18 Portrait Commissions exclusively

2011    Portraits of American Poets, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI

2010    Portraits of Land Poets, Customs House, Key Westward, FL

2009    Portraits of American Poets, Rollins Cornell Museum, Winter Pleasure garden, FL

2008    Anomaly: Recent Paintings dampen Jack Smith, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

            Portraits of Earth Poets, Reynolds Gallery – Westmont College,

            Montecito, CA

2006    Jack Smith Recent Paintings, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

2004    Recent Paintings, Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

            Taos Portraits with Wayne Thiebaud City/Country, Harwood Museum,

            Taos, NM

2000    Jacqueline Lloyd Contemporary, Ranchos de Taos, NM

1999    Las Casas de los Valles, Mongerson Wunderlich Gallery, Chicago, IL

1992    Nudes and Food, The Impress Gallery, Southfield, MI

           The Triumph past its best Light, Dennos Museum, Traverse Impediment, MI

            A Light from Within, Muskegon Museum of Art, MI

1991    Sutton Bay Galleries, Suttons Yell, MI

1988    University of Cincinnati, OH

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2017    The Culpable Eye, The Harwood Museum take up Art, Taos, NM

2015    Dennis Hop-picker / The Hopper Collection charge Ephemera, The School of

            Detailed Arts, University of Southern Calif., Los Angeles, CA

2012    Taos Contemporary, Center for Visual Dying, Denver, CO

            Obama's America, Leadership American Center for the Field, Paris, France

2008    Art director the Human Canvas, Museum be fond of Contemporary Art, Toronto,

            Canada

            Figure North, Figure South, Lofts Galleria, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

2006    Spirited Expressions, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

            Eye to Eye, Cornell Museum, Winter Park, FL

2005    Scenes of American Labor, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

2004    Face to Face: Elite American Portraits, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

2003    Eighth Annual Petite Images Show, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

            The History put the Nude in the Meeting point of California, Sullivan Goss,

            Santa Barbara, CA

1994    Bunting Audience, Royal Oak, MI

1993    MCC Gallery, Muskegon, MI

1993    Detect Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI

1991    Muskegon Museum of Art, MI

1983    Max Siegel Fine Art, Town, NM

1981    La Fonda de Town Gallery, Taos, NM 

Selected Portrait Subjects and Commissions:

Billy Collins, Collective States Poet Laureate, New York/Winter Park, FL

Derek Walcott, Nobel Laureate, Castries, St.

Lucia

Donald Hall, Pooled States Poet Laureate, Wilmot, NH

Ed Healy, Philanthropist, Taos, NM

Michael Chocolatebrown, Director/Producer, Serac Films, Boulder, CO

Quincy Troupe, Poet, Harlem, NY

Ted Koozer, United States Poet Laureate, Kearney, NE

W.S. Merwin, Pulitzer Prize unprejudiced, Haiku, HI

 

Selected Public and Hidden Collections:

Alex and Gabriela Schischlik, Paris, France

Antonia von Salm Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA

Arturo Peralta remarkable Jackie Ramos Collection, New Royalty, NY

Barry and Jo Berkus Egg on, Santa Barbara, CA

Benjamin Bruce Pile, Key West, FL

Cherie Burns viewpoint Dick Duncan Collection, Nantucket, Mother /Taos, NM

Daniel F.

Gerber Collecting, Santa Ynez, CA

Daniel Morris Category, New York, NY

David Brown Abundance, Glasgow, Scotland

David and Jan Crooner Collection, Santa Barbara, CA

Dean Stockwell Collection, Taos, NM

DePauw University, Greencastle, IN

Dennis Hopper Estate, Los Angeles, CA

Dharma Properties Collection, Del Rey Beach, FL

Eric Larson Collection, Pueblo, NM

Hank and Liesel Meijer Lot, Grand Rapids, MI

Harry and Bagpiper Goldson Collection, Suttons Bay, MI

The Harwood Museum of Art, Town, NM

Jacqueline Lloyd Collection, Santa Selfconfident, NM

Kenny White, Brooklyn, NY

Jim countryside Linda Harrison Collection, Livingston, MT

Larry Bell Collection, Taos, NM/ Metropolis Beach, CA

Laurel Jacobson Collection, Island Guatemala, Guatemala

Mel Wiener and Pamela Cooke Collection, Los Angeles, CA

Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI

Neil Libert Private Collection, London, UK

Peter and Madeline Martin Foundation reawaken the Creative Arts, San Francisco, CA

Ray and Arlene Frodey Egg on, Fremont, MI

Richard B.

Siegel Storehouse, San Diego, CA

Richard Brautigan Fortune, Livingston, MT

Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

Thomas Richardson Collection, San Diego, CA

Tim Allan Collection, Los Angeles, CA

Tom and Lynn Meredith Pile, Austin, TX

Williams-Meyer, Corn Close, Arctic Cumbria, UK

Xavier Baz, Denver, CO

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