Josh Smith: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta and Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Anne Pontégnie
Through painting, collage, artist books, sculpture and ceramics, Josh Smith's work is dominated by spontaneous, gestural brushstrokes and vibrant colors and characterized by systematic processes, replication, and serial repetition. Using his signature to structure the space of the picture, Smith investigates notions of authorship, authenticity and originality. Part of the 2000 Words series, conceived and commissioned by Massimiliano Gioni, and published by the Deste Foundation, Josh Smith: 2000 Words presents the entirety of the American artist\s works in the Dakis Joannou Collection and includes an essay by Anne Pontegnie that examines how the artist explicitly seeks to open up a different pictorial space.
Publisher: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
Artists: Josh Smith
Contributors: Anne Pontégnie
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Softcover
Dimensions: 7 1/4 x 10 in | 18.4 x 25.4 cm
Pages: 92
ISBN: 9786185039004
Retail: $22
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Josh Smith
Josh Smith is a New York-based painter who also works with collage, sculpture, printmaking, and books. He first became known in the early 2000s for a series of canvases depicting his own name, a motif that allowed him to experiment freely with abstraction and figuration and the expressive possibilities of painting. His work has since given way to monochromes, gestural abstractions, and varied imagery, including leaves, fish, skeletons, sunsets, and palm trees that the artist has explored in series. Smith’s work engages in a celebratory and prolific process of experimentation and refinement—upending the conventions of painting while simultaneously commanding a deep awareness of its history.