BIOGRAPHY: Carey Glenn Smith received a Master's in Art Education from Lander University and a BFA in Studio Art along with a minor in Philosophy from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He regularly exhibits paintings, sculpture, and prints throughout the New England and Southeastern regions in addition to composing and publishing original musical compositions. Glenn-Smith's first collection of poems, Nouveau Memento Mori, was self-published. The second volume, Tithing All the Candor, was released by Wintergoose Publishing. Recent publications that have featured his creative work include Penny Ante Feud, Nefarious Ballerina, Black Heart Magazine, and Fine Lines. He is formerly an Adjunct Professor of Art History at Piedmont Technical College. He now resides in Boston, MA where he is producing artwork, writing, and teaching Sculpture/Ceramics for Medford High School.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
All of my work tends to center around goals that are not related to outright abstraction nor are they aimed at becoming a medium for developing new perspectives on known or pictorial metaphor; rather, the aim is to magnify the possibilities of psychological phenomenon for the individual and heighten the tangible edge of the immaterial world both metaphysically and derivatively based specifically on the art object and the processes used to create it. Where there is spiritual and mysterious intuition, there is transcendence!
There is still certainly something deliberate and scientific about it, although, the approaches used are always poetic and lyrical on some level. In the scientific sense, I refer to the potential of images derived from concepts based on the quantum world, still, they are taken from its most ethereal and base essences when it comes to conceptualizing the imagery. From this universal and more innocent perspective (a focus on color, form, pattern and rhythm), what gives rise to given realities becomes more acute.
The art seeks to focus attention on the concrete things we know to be objects, the same objects that we, none the less, incessantly infer and derive life and emotion both from and onto. It does not matter if they are art objects or not. We engage in these actions poetically and metaphorically regardless of our knowledge of the presence of illusion or the uncertainty of scientific processes backing them. It is both magical and subjective, while still remaining empirical on some level. I would imagine it to be difficult to go through life in any other way. As a daily mode of existence, both in viewing a particular creation and in existing as a constant creator of physical and emotional realities myself, I feel the artistic practice is all permeating.
Select Exhibits :
• Essex Arts Center, Fiesta En La Calle, Lawrence, MA, 2022
• Haverhill Arts Association Open Showing, Haverhill, MA, 2022
• Instructor Group Show, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, 2021
• Solo Exhibition, Tres Gatos, Jamaica Plains, MA, 2019
• Everett City Art Walk, Everett, MA, 2019
• East Boston Open Market, Boston, MA, 2018-19
• Group Show, Medford City Hall, Medford, MA, 2018
• MFA Silent Auction, Medford, MA, 2017
• Solo Exhibition, Trinity Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2016
• Solo Exhibition, Aeronaut, Boston, MA, 2015
• Block 11, Boston, MA, 2014
• Lander University, Monsanto Gallery, SC, 2013
• Studio One, Greenwood, SC, 2012
• CAY Contemporaries, Columbia Museum of Art, SC, 2012
• Michael Mitchell Gallery, Charleston, SC, 2011
• Homemade Genius Gallery and Studio, Ninety-Six, SC, 2010
• Unpronounced Unrest, Greenwood Arts Center, SC, 2009
• Festival of Flowers, Greenwood, SC, 2009
• Rising Contemporaries, Cooperative Gallery, Omaha, NE , 2008
• International Abstraction Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, ID, 2005
• Young Contemporaries, College of Charleston, SC, 2004
• Greenville Museum Contemporary Exhibition, SC, 2004 • Private collection, College of Charleston, S.C., 2003