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ONCE WE WERE KINGS acrylic wash, graphite, gold spray paint on birch panel with hand-made frame with black gloss finish

SHELTER DOG 33 ½” x23 ¼”  Pencil, Acrylic paint, metallic spray paint on panel. $1200 (click here to purchase)

THE IRONY OF DEATH 16,  6 ½”x6 ½” panels.  Acrylic paint, Gel Medium Transfers on birch panel. $1100 (SOLD)

CAPTURE 48”x96”  Acrylic paint, Charcoal, Ink wash, Spray paint on panel (SOLD)

This piece is the first of a series of pieces that will represent a predator vs. prey mentality.  The work was created to hang at eye level with 3 small 12″x12″ pieces hanging just below and to the left of the piece (very non-traditional hanging for a gallery setting).  The three smaller pieces will be white panels with small mice on them, scurrying to get away from the talons of the owl.  They will also be carrying small targets on their backs with straps that wrap around their shoulders like a backpack would.  This idea came to me when a gentleman in New York decided to stop me on the subway and tell me I have a target on my back because I had a map.  I starting thinking beyond his silly, passer-by comment and began to see the emotional targets we all carry and how, despite knowledge of potential pain, we enter in to friendships and relationships that open us up to vulnerability.  I am enjoying using the animal world to represent human feelings because in many ways we are very animalistic with the way we view food, sex, power etc.  Who knows where this journey and thought process will take me.

-Jerrod

Jerrod Smith “Capture” $800 (SOLD) limited prints available.

Joel and Morgan- Proposal Book

A few months ago I got a phone call from my good friend Joel Limpic informing me that he was wanting to propose to his lovely girlfriend Morgan.  His plan for the proposal consisted of somehow working in Morgan’s love for books (in this case a vintage book) with the beautiful vintage wedding ring and vintage feminine pocket watch.  The book and watch were such great symbols for the idea of representing their future story and the chapters that they had to look forward to and the pocket watch the symbol of time and the reminder to always cherish that.  With all of these elements and a quote from a song Joel had written we came up  with this gorgeous vintage altered book that he used to ask for her hand. I cannot take all the credit for this book however.  Joel was the one who brought all of the elements together while I brainstormed with him in how to make them all work with one another.  Joel hand cut all of the spaces for the elements to recede into the book and I assembled and attached the hardware and leather strap as a way to latch the book closed.  Then with an old typewriter Joel typed out his lyrics and together we found the perfect spot for them.  Thank you Joel for allowing me to be a part of your story together and for always throwing creative curve balls my way!

The piece and photos of Joel’s wedding were featured on a really great wedding blog.  Check it out here www.100layercake.com

Have a creative idea you would like to see brought to life but not quite sure how to get there.  Feel free to e-mail me in the contact section of the website.

LUKA International Foundation.

Featuring Keynote Speaker:  Ambassador Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, Ph.D. Ambassador of the Republic of Zambia to the United States of America

March 27th 2010 I will be featuring a donated piece to the 2nd Annual “To Zambia With Love” Silent Auction and Dinner.  For More info on the event and how you can attend please click here.

(All proceeds from the silent auction and dinner benefit the construction of the Africa Central Field Conference and Training Center in Lusaka, Zambia. This center will be used in training pastors and others from all over Zambia as community leaders with skills in caring for AIDS orphans, drilling wells to provide water for various communities, agriculture, sustainable income generating projects, and other vital life-giving programs).

This is a commission piece finished just recently called “And the Trees Sway In Time to the Rhythm of Our Hearts.”  This piece features a collaged photograph of a couple walking side by side, a hand rendered birch tree with pen, acrylic paint, charcoal and stains and a variety of layered vintage papers, sheet music, paints and wood laminates.   Derived from my thoughts on the idea of nature and how it inspires and opens up my capacity to love.

The sales of original art, limited edition prints, t-shirts and other merchandise funds the evolution and new creation of my work.  If you like what you have seen and want to see more, stop by the store, find something you love and order it today so I can keep up the momentum of creating all the things that are pounding to get out of my brain.  Thank you for your visit!

That trash plays so prominent a role in modern art should perhaps come as no surprise, as concerns about our environment and the ravages visited on it come into clearer focus. The thousands of dumps that have become the homes of those unable to eke out a living elsewhere serve as shameful emblems of our societies’ neglected responsibilities. For their part, Beuys and Hirst have employed trash as a commentary on art and its times — on the wasteful consumerism that characterizes our culture and the antiseptic environments in which art is experienced.

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