Samantha Keely Smith: Painter
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take your battered soul....wear it as a crown
Female
101 years old
NYC, New York
United States
Last Login: 12/4/2009
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Samantha Keely Smith: Painter's Interests
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| General | THINGS I LOVE -
painting (which is something that keeps me alive...gives meaning to my life....and without which I would be a shell of a human being....in other words, Painting is everything to me), music (essential, especially for the painting), books (mostly 19th C or historical novels), films, real conversations about things that matter (not good at small talk), passionate creativity, thunderstorms, the cooing of the mourning doves on my fire-escape, the smell of oil paint, buying new art supplies....
I am much more inspired by Music, Literature and Film than by most Visual Art.... BUT, there are some Artists I really really LIKE and who have inspired me: Anselm Kiefer, Frank Auerbach, Antoni Tapies, Klimt, Joan Mitchell, Egon Schiele, Cy Twombly, Mark Rothko, Chaim Soutine, Whistler, Turner, Delacroix, Ingres, Caravaggio, Courbet, and of course, the genius, Rembrandt.....plus loads of others i am forgetting right now!
"the knowledge of the soul - knowledge in eternity, without reference to the here and now - not hidden behind the language of the intellect."
"In places like Universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear." - JOSEPH BEUYS
"Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. She overwhelms man by the contrast between Divine beauty and social hideousness. She spares him nothing of her loveliness, neither wing of butterfly nor song of bird. In the midst of murder, vengeance, barbarism, he must feel himself watched by Holy things; he cannot escape the immense reproach of universal nature and the implacable serenity of the sky. The deformity of Human laws is forced to exhibit itself naked amidst the dazzling rays of eternal beauty. Man breaks and destroys; man lays waste; man kills; but the Summer remains the Summer; the lily remains the lily; the star remains the star."
- Victor Hugo, from "Ninety-Three" 1873.
| | Music | The Beatles, Lloyd Cole, Charlie Sexton, Talk Talk, Mark Hollis, The Blue Nile, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, The Cure, David Bowie, Thomas Feiner, Richard Butler, The Psychedelic Furs, Japan, IAMX, Akira Rabelais, Will Scott, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music, Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Antony and the Johnsons, Arvo Part, The Police, Roy Harper, Bob Dylan, Ben Harper, Raphael Saadiq, Tom Waits, Led Zeppelin, Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, Black Field, Billie Holiday, David Byrne, The Wolfgang Press, Geniuser, Louis Armstrong, The Pixies, Tim Bowness, No-Man, King Crimson, The Smiths, D'Angelo, Saffron Wood, Theo Travis, Black Crowes, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Etta James, Annie Lenox, Michael Brook, Trash Can Sinatras, Van Morrison, Charles Mingus, Tears For Fears, Thelonious Monk, Echo and the Bunnymen, Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Nusrat Fetah Ali Khan, John Forte, Citizen Cope, The Animals, Maxwell, AC/DC, old Aerosmith, The Specials, Terry Hall, Marvin Gaye, Sarah Vaughn, Coltrane, Radiohead, Stevie Wonder, Joy Division, New Order, The Glove,Q-Tip, Neil Young, Preacher Boy, Lesli, Amos Lee, Emmylou Harris, Sigur Ros, Shannon McNally, Chris Isaak, K.D.Lang, Robert Fripp, Prefab Sprout, CocoRosie....etc. | | Movies | too many to name, but generally films by Directors like: David Lynch, Ang Lee, Julian Schnabel, Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, Terry Gilliam, James Ivory, Terrance Malick, Coppola, Louis Malle, Scorsese, Orson Welles, Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Spielberg, Mike Nichols, Jim Sheridan, Tim Burton, Ron Howard, Fassbinder, John Huston, Pedro Almodovar, Sam Mendes, Wim Wenders, Kubrick, Lasse Hallstrom, Mike Leigh, Polanski, Darren Aronofsky, Gus Van Sant, John Sayles, Stephen Frears, etc..... | | Books | some favorite authors: Hugo, Dostoevsky (the Pevear/Volokhonsky translations are great), Dumas, Wilke Collins, Thomas Hardy, Balzac, Zola, Stendhal, Tolkein, Trollope, Ayn Rand, Flaubert, Ondaatje, Camus, Sartre, Tolstoy, Fowles, Hamsun, Steinbeck, George Elliot, Radcliffe, Kundera, Orhan Pamuk, Iain Pears, Paul Auster, David Mitchell, Paul Eluard, Susanna Clarke, J.K. Rowling, and R.F. Delderfield. there are many more authors i should be including here but my memory is going...all those paint and varnish fumes are frying my brain. Thanks to everyone who has given me book recommendations so far, i really appreciate it!
some books that have made a huge impact on my life as far as inspiration:
Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl Jung
Autobiography of a Yogi- Paramahansa Yogananda
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Art and the Creative Consciousness - Graham Collier
The Art Spirit - Robert Henri
The Romantic Manifesto - Ayn Rand
The Reenchantment of Art - Suzi Gablik
Transformations of Myth Through Time - Joseph Campbell
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Samantha Keely Smith: Painter's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Occupation: | Artist/Painter |
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Samantha Keely Smith: Painter ............Diving Twilight......redux Posted at 11:46 PM Nov 24
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Diving Twilight.....revised
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Reckoning- new painting with detail pics
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the article about my work in Whitewall Magazine
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The DUENDE ....words to live by
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About me:
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My work explores the continual struggle to integrate the dual worlds in which we exist: the external world which is the sum of our sensory experiences, and the inner world of our mind and emotions, and our physical and visceral existence.
It looks at the interdependence of contrasting and often contradictory realities or viewpoints; the idea that in order to truly appreciate beauty and light, one must allow for the necessity of the dark truths that are as much a part of our lives as the innate pull towards hope. Order and chaos, the cerebral and the instinctive, sacred and profane– each requires the other.
These paintings provide a space where there is the opportunity to begin to accept chance and accident. A place where one can surrender, if only for a moment, to loss of control and the freedom that this can bring, and where the boundaries of place and time are not relevant.
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WEBSITE OF MY PAINTINGS (press/bio, paintings from 1998 -present, etc):
http://www.samanthakeelysmith.com
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*All images Copyright of Artist Samantha Keely Smith. Images cannot be reproduced without the permission of the Artist.
above: RECKONING, 60" x 64", oil and varnish on canvas, 2009.
above: DIVING TWILIGHT, 60" x 68", oil and varnish on canvas, 2009.
above: ECHO, 60" x 78", oil and varnish on canvas, 2009.
above: FROM ASHES, 50" x 70", oil and varnish on canvas, 2009.
above: PASSAGE, 58" x 68", oil and varnish on canvas, 2008.
above: DESIRE, 48" x 66", oil and varnish on canvas, 2008.(SOLD)
above: GLEANING, 52" x 60", oil and varnish on canvas, 2008.
above: SEGUE, 48" x 64", oil and varnish on canvas, 2008.(SOLD)
above: WAKE, 64" x 72", oil and varnish on canvas, 2007.
above: VELOCITY, 60" X 68", oil and varnish on canvas, 2007.
above: SURRENDER, 60" X 68", oil and varnish on canvas, 2007.
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ABOUT THE PAINTINGS:
"...Seen in the flesh, her paintings are enriched by the tactile information she creates by juxtaposed brushwork styles. Sections of her paintings have the light, creamy quality of Fragonard's fluffy clouds, and other areas have an atmospheric intensity akin to that of Frederic Edwin Church's "Twilight" landscapes. But overlying these areas of skillful, historically evocative, nature-inspired beauty, are strokes and chunks that appear to have been silkscreened on after Keely Smith completed the harmony of her base compositions.......Standing before her massive canvases (the paintings) became as alluring as fairy-tale landscape. The differences in paint quality and character created a feeling of penetrability, and the electric contrasts between sections are as inviting as a portal into a warm, welcoming alternate world. "
- Ana Finel Honigman
WHITEWALL Magazine, Summer Issue, 2009.
"Her paintings convey the permanent evolution of natural space into a dream space, more beautiful than its counterpart... Smith's artwork represents a bridge of reconciliation between the outer world, the sum of our sensory experiences, and the inner world, that of our mind and emotions."
- Westwood Gallery, 2007
"The paintings of Samantha Keely Smith draw heavily on this lineage...of the safe place of the supernatural, where dreams and visions are made concrete and whole...exuding otherworldly power and emotion. It's strong stuff, heady and exhausting, as Smith is the first to admit...The result is a sort of fantastical abstract genre that looks and feels ageless, simultaneously very old and new."
-Benjamin Tischer, FINE Magazine, 2003.
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creative people with similar interests and art lovers/collectors. Musicians, Writers, Photographers, Painters, Actors, Filmmakers, Inventors, Scientists, and anyone who creates and thinks outside the box. I'd especially like to meet people who share my love of 19th C. lit. or historical fiction, so that we can exchange book recommendations. I'd like to make new friends
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