ANTHONY SMITH, JR.
I make artwork that’s filled with rich dense spaces. These spaces coalesce into vibrant and sometimes floral worlds where I often play out moral, political, or philosophical fantasies using calligraphic gestures and collage. I often layer and erase work to capture the ghost of what came before. I see the mission of my art as attempting to describe the world without the filters we have created to make sense of that world. The visual onslaughts I create make passing attempts at establishing balance in the traditional sense but more often than not represent a form of visual static rather than compositional harmony.
