Adam Parker Smith is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work includes sculpture, mixed media, photography, film and installation; sound, lights, and movement; humor, irony, pop culture, and an occasional literary reference.
Smith will be at Eastern Illinois University’s Tarble Arts Center to complete an art installation titled Thriller and to present a lecture about his art.
The artist’s talk is Thursday, December 2, at 7pm, at the Tarble Arts Center. Admission is free and the public is invited. The program may also include a preview of the Thriller installation. Thriller is scheduled to open December 4 and will remain on exhibition through February 20 in the Tarble’s eGallery.
A writer for the Blue Sky artist residency project described Smith as an artist who “constructs illustrations of dreams and imagined scenarios”… “making small incidents cooler and sexier than they actually are” with ”the idealized sheen of a comic book world.”
Subjects of some of Smith’s works include Terrence Howard, Superman, Mike Tyson, Anna Nicole Smith, John F. Kennedy, an execution scene from Ernest Hemingway's “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” a microwave oven, the movie “Jaws” and the book “Moby Dick.”
Although much of Smith’s art is reminiscent of comics, children’s toys and games, the themes and imagery can often be “parental guidance recommended.”
Smith has studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received an M.F.A. in Painting from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and a B.A. in Painting from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has been a frequent recipient of artist residency fellowships, including a Djerassi Residency, the Sculpture Space Residency Program, Elizabeth Foundation Studio Space, Blue Mountain Artist Residency, and Blue Sky Program (Illinois).
Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the University of Maryland, Priska Juschka Fine Arts (New York City), Allen Priebe Gallery (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh), Parisian Laundry (Montreal), Galerie Nordine ZIDOUN (Luxembourg), Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, and other venues.
Other exhibitions of his art include: State of the Art: New York, Urbis, Manchester, England; Feast of Burden, TSST Gallery, Hong Kong; Thread Baring, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; The Austerity Cookbook, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis; Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art; and Home Base Project, New York City. Articles about his art have appeared in Artforum.com, The New York Times, Montreal Mirror, and other publications.
Smith’s lecture is a New & Emerging Artists Series program of the EIU College of Arts & Humanities co-sponsored by the Tarble Art Center and the EIU Art Department. The Tarble Arts Center is located at 2010 9th Street on the EIU campus in Charleston. For information phone 217-581-ARTS (-2787), email tarble@eiu.edu, or log onto www.eiu.edu/~tarble.
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