Carl Smith is an American artist who has been living in Berlin, Germany, since 2001. He works with a combination of silkscreen printing, collage, and painting to create his urban inspired artworks. In his art Smith explores the area between Pop Art and Surrealism. Each carefully constructed artwork is a unique compilation of images brought together to tell a story with a seemingly endless narrative that excites the viewer.
This unique artwork measures 33 inches high by 9 inches wide. It does not require framing. Smith combines his own photography with drawings and other narrative fragments. He works with several layout combinations before creating a finished image. From this finished layout, he selects and transmits individual pieces onto a canvas through screen-printing and further completes his works with oil or acrylic paint.
This artwork is inspired by the unique designs of book spines. Carl Smith's book spine artworks can be displayed as one or as a collection of literature. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included.
Carl Smith is originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and studied art at Cooper Union in New York. He has exhibited his work in France, Germany, Norway, Holland, USA and England in numerous solo shows or as a member of a four man team called TABI. He was chosen as one of five artists who exhibited at the Berliner Liste, invited to exhibit in the 2012 Paris Mac art fair as a featured guest of the organizers.
Group Shows
2016 Artspace Warehouse. Los Angeles
2015 New York Affordable Art Fair, New York
‘Pop Art Shakeup’, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles
2013 'People in Motion' Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles
2012 'Rare Birds', Lessing Halle, Kiel, Germany
2011 'Urban Discovery', ArtSpace Warehouse, Los Angeles
2010 'White Gloves Evening', Kunst Kontor, Berlin.
2010 ‘Urban Desire’, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles
2009 'Pocket Art', Kielkind Kunstraum, Kiel, Germany
‘Pop is Hot’, Kunstwarenhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
2008 ‘Mingle Configuration’, Turn Gallery, Berlin, Germany
‘Berliner Kunstsalon’. Umspanwerk, Berlin, Germany
2002 ‘T.A.B.I. Mini Salon’, private residence, Berlin, Germany
2000 ‘Pop am Ring’, Waschhaus, Potsdam, Germany
1997 ‘Scrambling Wall’, Site 21/21, Albuquerque, N.M.
‘Paper View’, Cooper Union, New York, N.Y.
1998 ‘Send in the Clones’, The Emerging Collector, New York, N.Y.
‘Truck’, The Lofts, Santa Fe, N.M.
‘Ship from the Desert’, Machinenehalle, Potsdam, Germany
1996 ‘Exotica’, Dodge Magazine offices, San Francisco, CA
‘Planet Iris’, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
1995 ‘From New York to Amsterdam’, Schuim, Amsterdam, Holland
‘Formentation’, Offsite, Santa Fe, N.M.
1992 ‘Hypnotic frenzy’, Railyard Performance Center, Santa Fe, N.M.
‘The Burning Boat’, The Bookroom, Santa Fe, N.M.
‘T.A.B. May Show’, Tesuque Art Barn, Tesuque, N.M.
Solo shows
2014'Body Clock', Cabinet de Chiropratique, Berlin, Germany
2013'The Living Lexicon', DAT Gallery Berlin, Germany
'Iiwii Gallery presents #3', Iiwii Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2012'Synchronicity', Cabinet de Chiropratique, Berlin, Germany
'The Imaginary Salon´, Moppete, Berlin
'Between the Lines', As-style, Berlin
'Sound of the City', Inkarma Gallery, Berlin
2011'Northern Kites', Kielkind Kunstraum,Kiel.2009 'Jumping Your Shadow', Kielkind Kunstraum, Kiel, Germany
2006 ‘Simultaneity’, Art & Industry, Santa Fe, N.M
2005 ‘Magazine, Magazine’ The Spitz, London, England
2003 ‘Metaphor’, Cafe Rosa, Berlin, Germany
1998 ‘Transience’, Ecole National des Beaux Artes, Paris, France
1997 ‘Correspondences’, Plan B, Santa Fe, N.M.
1993 ‘Contact’, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
‘Summer Times…’ The Velvet Cage, Santa Fe, N.M.