United States, Painter April 15, 1989
Lucien Smith (born 1989, Los Angeles) is an American painter based in New York. Forbes featured Smith twice in its 2013 and 2014 list of 30 under 30 in the category "Art & Style." The New York Times named him the art world Wunderkind.
I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.
I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last.
I started thinking about how rain is depicted in illustrations. In comics that use gouache or watercolor, they use light blue, so I started using that color.
I was born in L.A., but raised in New York.
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.
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