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Lucien Smith (born 1989, Los Angeles) is an artist based in New York. He is a painter and sculptor experimenting with the results of amalgamating various art genres, concepts, and techniques in his work.

Education
Smith graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Cooper Union School of Art.

Work
The incorporation of ready-made materials and use of collage references Dadaist doctrine; the impasto layering of oils on canvas, with the inclusion of molding paste and detritus, flirts with Matter Painting, as his non-representational renderings nod to the Art Informel or Tachisme movements of the ’40s and ’50s. With a concentration on process, Smith investigates the outcome of allowing his ideas to develop slowly, cultivating the dialogue created between concept and physicality/thought and object. Smith articulates the insecurity and hesitancy of reaching for success through demolishing the very symbol of its possibility.

Selected exhibitions

 * It Ain't Fair: Materialism, OHWOW, Miami Basel, 2011
 * Homebody, Still House, New York, 2011
 * Cripple Creek, Ritter/Zamet, London, United Kingdom, 2011
 * Needle in the Hay, Ritter/Zamet, London, United Kingdom, 2011
 * Imagined Nostalgia, 41 Cooper Gallery, New York, 2011
 * It Ain't Fair, OHWOW, Miami Basel, 2010
 * New Deal, Art Production Fund, New York, 2009