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"Let no one look down upon your
youthfulness..."
--Apostle Paul to Timothy |
"It isn't easy being green..."
--Kermit the Frog |
Jerry Smith is currently in his fourth year of teaching Painting and Art Appreciation at Collin College. Since arriving in the Dallas area, his work has received recognition including Texas Christian University’s Art In The Metoplex (Fall 2008), honorable mention at the Texas National exhibition of Stephen F. Austin University (Summer 2008); and most recently he was selected as a nominee for the Hunting Art Prize held in Houston (Spring 2009).
In the past, he has received awards at International and National exhibitions (42nd International Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute); and exhibited in over 80 one man, juried and invitational competitions. He has been the guest artist at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon Oh, and at Abilene Christian University, Abilene Tx., among other colleges in Kansas.
While completing his MFA in Painting from the University of Kansas (1986), he was awarded a Fellowship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. There, he studied with Betye Saar, Roy Deforest, Mary Heilmann, Louisa Chase, Richard Serra, John Chamberlain, Elizabeth Murray, Eric Fischl and Sidney Goodman.
His style is an eclectic mix, ranging from painting, assemblage, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. His work is often reflects humor and irony through words incorporated along with the imagery, and his goal in all his art is to present the personal experience as it relates to the universal of the audience.
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"Another 'Brief' Sketch (for Bill Clinton)"
prismacolor and silkscreen on paper
28x36 inches. |
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"Skowhegan Summer Fallow"
acrylic on canvas, with barbed wire sculpture
96x124 inches. |
He had taught fulltime for five years prior in Iowa (Western Iowa Tech Community College) with courses in Drawing I & II, Design I & II, Painting I & II, as well as Art Appreciation and Art History II. Other life experience includes serving as a QMRP, managing residential care for adults with disabilities at various agencies in Kansas; working in an automotive radiator factory, and on the cleanup crew of a slaughter house.
He is remarried to a Texas native, dotes on his two daughters aged 15 & 16, and enjoys collecting art as part of the art exposure he brings to his classroom. He lives in Plano, with his family, art, two cats and a dog. |
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