Mark T Smith / Sculpture presentation / 2013

1. MARK T SMITH
1968 -

6. ARTIST STATEMENT
“My work is a neo-classic counter-revolution to the emotionally vapid and endlessly self- referencing
post-modern thought and artwork. The artwork exhibits the classic skills of drawing and painting with
the balance of a modern mindset. I have always had a primary interest in the tactile experience of
making beautiful expressions in the traditional forms of printmaking, sculpture, painting and drawing. My
images are archetypal in nature, universal in appeal and message. My desire is to place the future of Art
under the influence of: Beauty, Skill and Revelation. Throughout my career I have carefully sought out
opportunities to display and apply artwork in a manner that will reach as many people as possible, while
maintaining tight control on the quality and content of the artwork. I have spent my career participating
in the numerically smaller but more influential circles of the galleries and museums; however, I firmly
believe that artwork has a primary function to ennoble the public. In order to create an awareness and
appreciation of the Arts, Art must be connected to our daily lives and must find applications that
engenders understanding and implants the desire to have the Arts as a permanent partner in the
everyday experience of our lives”.
Mark T Smith

7. ABSOLUT SMITH
1996

9. EARLY DAYS
“All children are artists. The problem is how to
remain an artist once he grows up.”
Pablo Picasso

11. SCLUPTURE
“Sculpture is the final frontier for a painter and draftsman - finally to
reach out into the world. The newness of the experience is
intoxicating, the challenges exciting and fresh. The first baby-steps
into this world return me to the feeling that I had as a very young
child making art. I am approaching this new expression with a
renewed love of the creative process, the tabula rasa of a wise child
and have fallen in love again with Arts' seductive forces”.
Mark T Smith

24. LIFE
“I love it when a plan comes together.”
Hannibal Smith

27. J Murphy
jay@marktsmith.com