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1953 New Jersey - 1989. Known for: Printmaking-silkscreen.
Rupert Jasen Smith was born in 1953 in New Jersey. He was raised in Palm Beach, Florida. Smith received his bachelor of arts degree from Pratt Institute, New York City in 1973, in painting and... Read full biography
Rupert Jasen Smith was born in 1953 in New Jersey. He was raised in Palm Beach, Florida. Smith received his bachelor of arts degree from Pratt Institute, New York City in 1973, in painting and printmaking. Shortly thereafter, he was offered the position of master printer at Tamarind Institute in... Read full biography
Rupert Jasen Smith was born in 1953 in New Jersey. He was raised in Palm Beach, Florida. Smith received his bachelor of arts degree from Pratt Institute, New York City in 1973, in painting and printmaking. Shortly thereafter, he was offered the position of master printer at Tamarind Institute in Los Angeles, but declined, deciding to work independently in New York. Smith had spent most of his childhood intrigued by the tropical, lush surroundings indigenous to Florida and began painting and... Read full biography
Rupert Jasen Smith was born in 1953 in New Jersey. He was raised in Palm Beach, Florida. Smith received his bachelor of arts degree from Pratt Institute, New York City in 1973, in painting and printmaking. Shortly thereafter, he was offered the position of master printer at Tamarind Institute in Los Angeles, but declined, deciding to work independently in New York. Smith had spent most of his childhood intrigued by the tropical, lush surroundings indigenous to Florida and began painting and studied under the American landscape painter, A. E. Bakus. Surface quality became a significant aspect of his paintings and he experimented with illuminating a dimensional source within and on top of his canvases, eventually leading to the application... Read full biography
Rupert Jasen Smith was born in 1953 in New Jersey. He was raised in Palm Beach, Florida. Smith received his bachelor of arts degree from Pratt Institute, New York City in 1973, in painting and printmaking. Shortly thereafter, he was offered the position of master printer at Tamarind Institute in Los Angeles, but declined, deciding to work independently in New York. Smith had spent most of his childhood intrigued by the tropical, lush surroundings indigenous to Florida and began painting and studied under the American landscape painter, A. E. Bakus. Surface quality became a significant aspect of his paintings and he experimented with illuminating a dimensional source within and on top of his canvases, eventually leading to the application of diamond dust particles onto his surfaces to enhance the prismatic properties of light and color. In 1974,... Read full biography
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Keywords (8)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Screenprinting, Serigraphy, Silkscreen
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Printmaking Specialty