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Casey Jex Smith
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︎ Inquire
Casey Jex Smith (b. 1976) received a BFA in Painting from Brigham Young University and an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Smith creates intricate and fantastical landscape drawings with pen, graphite, and colored pencil. He constructs his environments with a superior force in mind, one that manipulates the human figure via sensual pleasures and patterns to create meaning. Smith’s elaborate visual style draws from the study of master printmakers, Persian Miniature painting, Dungeons & Dragons manuals, Where’s Waldo, and indie comics, borrowing compositional structures from RPGs, architectural magazines, pleasure gardens and Mormon temple rituals. Having grown up Mormon in the conservative Rocky Mountain state of Utah, Smith ultimately creates his wondrously imagined worlds as a means of escape. 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; 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 two children.
Presentations:
︎ East End Boys
︎ Inquire
Casey Jex Smith (b. 1976) received a BFA in Painting from Brigham Young University and an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Smith creates intricate and fantastical landscape drawings with pen, graphite, and colored pencil. He constructs his environments with a superior force in mind, one that manipulates the human figure via sensual pleasures and patterns to create meaning. Smith’s elaborate visual style draws from the study of master printmakers, Persian Miniature painting, Dungeons & Dragons manuals, Where’s Waldo, and indie comics, borrowing compositional structures from RPGs, architectural magazines, pleasure gardens and Mormon temple rituals. Having grown up Mormon in the conservative Rocky Mountain state of Utah, Smith ultimately creates his wondrously imagined worlds as a means of escape. 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; 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 two children.
Presentations:
︎ East End Boys