artist statement
I am a female painter from the Midwest in the U.S. and I have chosen to make paintings of trucks. Trucks are prevalent around here. As I see trucks on the highways they clearly describe movement, and I am interested in capturing that movement, through gestural mark making in my paintings. But trucks also represent power, aggression, and determination. They go places. They have a mission. They could easily be seen as figureheads in a patriarchal society. Trucks are ubiquitous. They populate nature so much that, in some places, they become the landscape. They are symbols of today. And, in this way, they allow me to speak through them about contemporary life in America, 2021
About
GUINEVER SMITH
EDUCATION:
University of Cincinnati, Master of Fine Art
University of Louisville, Bachelor of Arts
Yale-Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 City Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky
2018 Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, Kentucky
2009 Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
1999 Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, Kentucky
1998 Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
1994 Julius Friedman Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
1994 Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky
1992 Swanson Cralle Gallery
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Art in the Fastlane, Juried Exhibition, Vestige Concept Gallery, Pittsburg, PA (2021)
Eight Perspectives, Galerie Hertz Louisville Kentucky (2021)
Crocker Kingsley Juried Exhibition, Blueline Arts Gallery, Roseville California (January 2021)
" Architectonic", Juried Exhibition, Foundry Art Centre, St.Charles, Missouri
"Spring Invitational " Kleinhelter Gallery, New Albany, Indiana
“Louisville Artists: Carry on” traveling exhibition at Janice Mason Art Museum, Cadiz, Ky. and Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY
“Five Extraordinary Painters that Happen to be from Kentucky”, Galerie Hertz, Louisville
“Winter Soiree”, Gallery Artists, Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, KY
Pyro Squared, Group Invitational, Pyro Gallery, Louisville, KY
(a complete history of exhibitions is available on request)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2014 National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
2000 -01 Language and the Land, Kentucky Arts Council, Traveling Exhibition, throughout Kentucky and Ecuador.
1997 *Three Woman Exhibition, Lydon Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 National Juried Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, New York ,NY
1995 Red Clay Survey,Huntsville Museum of Art,Huntsville, AL
1994 Works on Paper, Cultural Center for Creative Arts, Mainz, Germany
1992 Exchange, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
1991 Kentucky on Paper, Exposition Pictorias, Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador
PUBLICATIONS/MEDIA
2016 Radio Interview for “Movement & Context” exhibit, hosted by Keith Waits artxfm.com
2013 WHAS-TV Morning interview for Open Studios Exhibition, Cressman Center, Louisville, KY
2001 “Looking at Painting” 3-part TV Series, 13 artist participants, produced by Robert Tharsing/KET network.
MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Hilliard Lyons Churchill Downs
Kentucky Center for the Arts Ventas Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois
Bellarmine University
Vencor Incorporated Brown-Forman Corporation University Club, University of Louisville
University of Kentucky Art Museum Lexington, Kentucky Yum Corporation
Peregoff, Rottman & Barron, Lexington, Kentucky
Cullinan Associates Masonic Homes
J & L Marketing Company
Dean, Dorton, Allen Ford, Place Atria Communities
Callistus Smith Insurance Company Commonwealth Bank
Chrysalis Ventures
Frost. Brown & Todd, Attorneys at Law
Stockyards Bank
EDUCATION:
University of Cincinnati, Master of Fine Art
University of Louisville, Bachelor of Arts
Yale-Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 City Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky
2018 Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, Kentucky
2009 Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
1999 Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, Kentucky
1998 Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
1994 Julius Friedman Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
1994 Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky
1992 Swanson Cralle Gallery
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Art in the Fastlane, Juried Exhibition, Vestige Concept Gallery, Pittsburg, PA (2021)
Eight Perspectives, Galerie Hertz Louisville Kentucky (2021)
Crocker Kingsley Juried Exhibition, Blueline Arts Gallery, Roseville California (January 2021)
" Architectonic", Juried Exhibition, Foundry Art Centre, St.Charles, Missouri
"Spring Invitational " Kleinhelter Gallery, New Albany, Indiana
“Louisville Artists: Carry on” traveling exhibition at Janice Mason Art Museum, Cadiz, Ky. and Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY
“Five Extraordinary Painters that Happen to be from Kentucky”, Galerie Hertz, Louisville
“Winter Soiree”, Gallery Artists, Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, KY
Pyro Squared, Group Invitational, Pyro Gallery, Louisville, KY
(a complete history of exhibitions is available on request)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2014 National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
2000 -01 Language and the Land, Kentucky Arts Council, Traveling Exhibition, throughout Kentucky and Ecuador.
1997 *Three Woman Exhibition, Lydon Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 National Juried Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, New York ,NY
1995 Red Clay Survey,Huntsville Museum of Art,Huntsville, AL
1994 Works on Paper, Cultural Center for Creative Arts, Mainz, Germany
1992 Exchange, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
1991 Kentucky on Paper, Exposition Pictorias, Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador
PUBLICATIONS/MEDIA
2016 Radio Interview for “Movement & Context” exhibit, hosted by Keith Waits artxfm.com
2013 WHAS-TV Morning interview for Open Studios Exhibition, Cressman Center, Louisville, KY
2001 “Looking at Painting” 3-part TV Series, 13 artist participants, produced by Robert Tharsing/KET network.
MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Hilliard Lyons Churchill Downs
Kentucky Center for the Arts Ventas Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois
Bellarmine University
Vencor Incorporated Brown-Forman Corporation University Club, University of Louisville
University of Kentucky Art Museum Lexington, Kentucky Yum Corporation
Peregoff, Rottman & Barron, Lexington, Kentucky
Cullinan Associates Masonic Homes
J & L Marketing Company
Dean, Dorton, Allen Ford, Place Atria Communities
Callistus Smith Insurance Company Commonwealth Bank
Chrysalis Ventures
Frost. Brown & Todd, Attorneys at Law
Stockyards Bank
I am a painter now for 40 years
CONTACT
Guinever Smith
[email protected]
502-895-0915
502-802-2458 (cell)
CONTACT
Guinever Smith
[email protected]
502-895-0915
502-802-2458 (cell)