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Brooklyn-based artist Samantha Keely Smith was born in England. After moving to the US as a child, Smith went on to study Fine Art at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and received a BFA with Honors from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (Painting, 1991).Samantha’s paintings are included in private and public collections in the US, Europe and UK.About the work:The paintings explore the landscape of the psyche – the place where the conscious and unconscious meet. On the periphery of dreams. In her work Samantha addresses the delusions of order and control that human beings cling to as we navigate the fundamental unpredictability of reality and sense our own finiteness in the immensity of time and nature. The existential and the personal—the exterior and the interior—are intertwined in Samantha’s paintings. Throughout all of her work there is an appreciation for the fragility of life, and at the same time, our boundless capacity to feel hope. She sees her work as an opportunity to call attention to our commonalities, by sharing deeply personal experiences that can also be universal experiences.Samantha’s painting process reflects the constant push and pull between order and chaos. By using solvents and scraping to break up the still wet paint, she opens up the possibility of accidental forms and marks. She responds to those results, putting a little of her own order back into the chaos. This process continues over several layers, resulting in images that hover between figuration and abstraction.

Listed skills include Painting, Art, Contemporary Art, Visual Arts, and 11 others.

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  Mason Gross School Of The Arts, Rutgers University

  Painting