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Casey Jex Smith
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︎ Inquire
A talented draftsman, Casey Jex Smith (b. 1976) creates fantastical, atmospheric landscape drawings with pen, graphite, and colored pencil. He constructs his intricate environments with a superior force in mind, one that manipulates the human figure via sensual pleasures and patterns to create meaning. The root of the psychedelic parables that often play out in Smith's work is his devout Mormon upbringing: "At the center of Mormon belief is an expanded narrative built around the Garden of Eden," Smith explains, "When you attend temple ceremonies, you watch films that detail this narrative, usually made with elaborate Hollywood-type sets of the biblical garden as paradise. It's a place you want to be. Unintentionally, it's also a sexually charged landscape where you and your perfect mate tromp around in the nude, eat fruit and pet goats."
Smith (b. 1976) received a BFA in Painting from Brigham Young University and an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Smith’s work has been exhibited widely, including at The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT; Artists Space, New York, NY; Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD; The Hole, New York, NY; Stellarhighway, Brooklyn, NY; Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, NM; My Pet Ram, New York, NY; Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY; Minus Offspace, Vienna, Austria; and, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France. He has been published by and reviewed in Taschen, Art Review Magazine, The Boston Globe, Bloomberg, Le Journal des Art, Time Out, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Rhizome, Artnet, Wired, ArtMaze Magazine, David Zwirner’s Platform, and New American Paintings. Smith also curates the Instagram account @thedrawingstall. The artist currently resides in Provo, Utah with his wife and children.
Presentations:
︎ Saturated: The Drawing Stall Vol. II
︎ East End Boys
︎ MPM / IRL at mepaintsme
Press:
︎ Metal Magazine
︎ Inquire
A talented draftsman, Casey Jex Smith (b. 1976) creates fantastical, atmospheric landscape drawings with pen, graphite, and colored pencil. He constructs his intricate environments with a superior force in mind, one that manipulates the human figure via sensual pleasures and patterns to create meaning. The root of the psychedelic parables that often play out in Smith's work is his devout Mormon upbringing: "At the center of Mormon belief is an expanded narrative built around the Garden of Eden," Smith explains, "When you attend temple ceremonies, you watch films that detail this narrative, usually made with elaborate Hollywood-type sets of the biblical garden as paradise. It's a place you want to be. Unintentionally, it's also a sexually charged landscape where you and your perfect mate tromp around in the nude, eat fruit and pet goats."
Smith (b. 1976) received a BFA in Painting from Brigham Young University and an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Smith’s work has been exhibited widely, including at The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT; Artists Space, New York, NY; Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD; The Hole, New York, NY; Stellarhighway, Brooklyn, NY; Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, NM; My Pet Ram, New York, NY; Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY; Minus Offspace, Vienna, Austria; and, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France. He has been published by and reviewed in Taschen, Art Review Magazine, The Boston Globe, Bloomberg, Le Journal des Art, Time Out, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Rhizome, Artnet, Wired, ArtMaze Magazine, David Zwirner’s Platform, and New American Paintings. Smith also curates the Instagram account @thedrawingstall. The artist currently resides in Provo, Utah with his wife and children.
Presentations:
︎ Saturated: The Drawing Stall Vol. II
︎ East End Boys
︎ MPM / IRL at mepaintsme
Press:
︎ Metal Magazine