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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 a Professor of
Painting and Art Appreciation. Prior to beginning his 2005 teaching
at Collin, he was for five years the full-time art faculty at
Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City, IA. He received
his MFA at the University of Kansas in 1987, and has had an eclectic
art and work career, intertwining 70 one-man and juried group
exhibitions, and college guest lectures with adjunct teaching,
factory assembly, family, and directing services for adults with
disabilities.
He received a fellowship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture in 1985, and there studied with full-time faculty of Betye
Saar, Roy DeForrest, Sidney Goodman, Mary Heilmann and Louisa Chase. |
"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. |
Recent awards include
the Juror's Award at the San Diego Art Institute's 42nd
International Exhibition, and selection for the 2005 Texas National
exhibition.
His art is also eclectic in style and media, from assemblage
painting and sculpture, to collage drawing, prints and installation.
Rather than declare himself a painter, he simply states, "I'm just
an artist who makes 'stuff'."
Jerry is devoted to his three "kids", ages 19, 17 and 12 and their
various cats; he bikes and cooks; and grows more handsome every day,
to both the annoyance and appreciation of his wife, a San Antonio
native. |
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