Artist Profile

Travis Smith

Artist Statement

The studio practice I maintain as a painter does not claim a concrete position nor does it depict the specificity of perceived information. Rather, it ritualizes the engagement with the form itself. Within this framework, the visual language of my work is composed from sensitivities to light, the architecture of lived space and the structural capabilities of color choices. For me, these qualities lead the way into picture making and when I turn back toward the world, I want to see it differently.

Bio / Description

b. 1980 Urbana, Illinois Lives/works Urbana, Illinois MFA University of Washington-Seattle 2013 BA University of Montana-Missoula 2008