Bio artist owen smith
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We see them pack up their possessions and make the perilous journey across the country in search of work and a better life. His illustrations for the recording artist Aimee Mann helped win a Grammy for Best Recording Package. These conflicts are still with us today. Smith designed mosaic murals for a New York City Subway Station and murals and relief sculpture panels for a Hospital in San Francisco.
Its power and brilliance shake the spirit, cosmic energy loses its established form through generations, turns into chaos and flies like a flock of migratory birds in search of empathy, wolves howl, cats scratch elemental particles in the confines of the universe, the feathers-in enveloping game-softly spread their garden scent and find their synchronicity.
He has created 20 covers for The New Yorker and recently illustrated a third book for children. He often depicts laborers, criminals, politicians, and the working class caught in moments of tension. Welcome to the spiritual version of Wonderland.’ —lamono magazine
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It is my moment of introspection, the way of not losing my head; it is meditation, decoding of cosmic signals, maybe.His paintings have been featured in exhibitions in New York, Rome, and Milan as well as solo shows in Los Angeles. In Smith's illustration a couple has broken the law over a jumbo-sized beverage.
New original paintings and the original illustration for 'The New Yorker' COVID19 edition will also be included. When they arrive in California they are resented by the locals and exploited by corporate farms. New York City's Mayor Bloomberg wanted to ban 32-ounce cups of soda, claiming they contribute to obesity. Over the years he’s written funny things for the tv shows: The Arsenio Hall Show, Whitney (NBC), Deon Cole’s Black Box, the Chris Rock hit Everybody Hates Chris, and Ice Cube’s Are We There Yet?
Owen lives in Santa Monica, CA with his funny and beautiful wife Ralinda.
“Owen Smith’s illustration clients include Sports Illustrated, Time, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker, for which he has created 15 cover illustrations.It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. The art is about human interaction, isolation, and social constraint. Materializing the unconscious in my path to consciousness. Recently Owen illustrated a special edition limited release of John Steinbeck's famous novel ''Grapes of Wrath' for 'Eaton Press' and all the paintings and drawings in the book will be included in 'Wayward'.
For the past 9 years Owen has been the Chair of the Illustration Program at California College of the Arts.
On Owen's web-site there is a quote from author/playwright Raymond Chandler that gives us a look into Owen's subject matter
“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.