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Smith and Tinkerbell sculpture

you can contact Smith at:
smithcrimes at-sign
yahoo dot com

or

via this contact page.

wife & i are travelling about world in 2006-2008 so have no mail address or phone

 

If you are interested in purchasing a piece for your own collection or for that of a client; or

if you own a gallery and would like to discuss arrangements for a show; or

if you want to discuss a private or corporate commission, you can e mail smith at smithcrimes @-sign yahoo dot com.

Your questions & comments are welcomed.

Here are some previous comments that Smith has received.

 

Selected Exhibitions and Shows

04/03 Smith's Sacred Lies - Love Truth Honor Family (39 pieces)
Brandt Gallery, Cleveland, OH
01/03 Page Me: The Art of Zines, Comix, and Other Artist Made Books
Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH (ArtCrimes #1-20)
04/00 Pages: Columbia College Chicago Center For Book
and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL (1 piece)
09/98 Howling at the Edge of a Renaissance: Spaces, Cleveland, OH
06/97 150 new works: Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH
09/94 Smith New Work: Bohemia Club Cafe, Cleveland OH
09/94 Selected Pieces 17 Years: Wildflower, Cleveland OH
07/94 Smith New Work: Edison's Bar, Cleveland OH
06/94 Smith/Lang/Other Poets: Studio Gallery, Cleveland OH
05/94 Smith New Work: The Literary, Cleveland OH
04/94 Smith New Work: Southwest Gallery, Cleveland OH
08/93 Smith New Work: Bohemia Club Cafe, Cleveland OH
08/93 Smith Family Show: Studio Gallery, Cleveland OH
07/88 Smith/Wilcox: Spaces Gallery, Cleveland OH
02/88 Pagan Right: Geoffrey Taber Gallery, Columbus OH
10/87 Uncensored Show: Spaces Gallery, Cleveland OH
09/87 New Work + Installation: Joyce Porcelli Gallery, Cleveland OH
08/87 Warehouse Diptych II: with S. Judson Wilcox, Cleveland, OH
08/86 Art Behind Bars: with S. Judson Wilcox, Cleveland OH
05/86 Me and My Friends: Tri-C West, Parma OH
10/85 Day of the Dead: Cameron University, Lawton OK
07/85 The Scroll Unrolls: Janco-Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, Israel
07/85 Allied Arts Gallery, Las Vegas NV
01/85 Last Mail Art Show: New York, NY
11/84 People's Art Show (1st Edition): CSU Gallery, Cleveland OH
10/84 Worker As Artist: Terminal Tower, Cleveland OH
09/84 Kowalyk/Krider/Sauselen/Smith: Spaces Gallery: Cleveland, OH
09/84 Parsons Show in New York, NY and Albany, NY
07/83 Ramifications of Instant Gratification: CSU, Cleveland OH
04/83 Contemporary Impressions: Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland OH
04/82 Rites of Spring: Riverbed Gallery, Cleveland OH
10/79 JCC 25th Annual Art Show: JCC, Cleveland OH

Collections: on permanent view
Children's Wing Metro Health Hospital, sculpture, Cleveland, OH

Selected Publications

10/03 Mac's Turns A New Trick - Green Panda Press, Cleveland, OH
06/03 A Moment's Will - West Bengal, India
04/03 Ornamental Iron - Green Panda Press, Cleveland, OH
12/02 The Long March of Cleveland - Green Panda, Cleveland, OH
11/02 Whiskey Island Magazine #45 (CSU) - Cleveland, OH
07/02 ArtCrimes #20 - Cleveland, OH
06/01 Whiskey Island Magazine #42 (CSU) - Cleveland, OH
08/96 SplitCity - Cleveland, OH
05/96 SplitCrimes #2 - Cleveland, OH
06/96 Little Albert #4 - Cleveland, OH
12/88 Brain Cell #110 - Japan
05/88 Generator #2 - Cleveland, OH
01/88 Taproot #7 - Cleveland, OH
05/86 ArtCrimes #1 - Cleveland, OH
02/86 Two Really Great Poets #1 - Cleveland, OH
02/86 Hey Daddyo #5 - Cleveland, OH
08/85 Clevebland Rag-o-zeen #7 - Cleveland, OH
07/85 Taproot #1 - Cleveland, OH
04/85 Whiskey Island Magazine #28 (CSU) - Cleveland, OH
04/84 Clevebland Rag-o-zeen #3 - Cleveland, OH
73-74 Performance (a weekly newpaper) - Baltimore, MD
04/73 Unicorn - Baltimore, MD
05/72 Johns Hopkins University Poetry Supplement - Baltimore, Md
02/70 Forum Oracle - Baltimore, MD
12/69 Generation - Baltimore, MD

 

ArtCrimes Published

05/86 ArtCrimes 01 - If Indication Abnormal
03/87 ArtCrimes 02 - Wretched Excesses
06/87 ArtCrimes 03 - The Vacation Coloring Book
01/88 ArtCrimes 04 - Artbark: Truffaut & True Friends
05/88 ArtCrimes 05 - Self Portraits & Poor Self Traits
11/88 ArtCrimes 06 - Life In A Peaceful New World
06/89 ArtCrimes 07 - Metapoems, Antipoems & Notpoems
04/89 ArtCrimes 08 - What Is Performance Art?
08/89 ArtCrimes 09 - CRIMES of tHeART
08/90 ArtCrimes 10 - I Will Sit In My Seat And Work
04/91 ArtCrimes 11 - Eat At Eternities
04/92 ArtCrimes 12 - Crimes In The Dark / Reel Life Art
05/92 ArtCrimes 13 - Night Fragments
08/93 ArtCrimes 14 - The Book Of Fools
06/94 ArtCrimes 15 - Four Play With Heads
09/97 ArtCrimes 16 - Art Crimes On Tape
04/95 ArtCrimes 17 - Language'Smyths
10/97 ArtCrimes 18 - Burnt Tongue Soup: Word Smiths Words Worst
09/98 ArtCrimes 19 - Whethered Would
07/02 ArtCrimes 20 - Sea of Forgetfulness

 

1988: It Was A Very Good Year

Exhibitions
10/88 The Peoples' Art Show; CSU Gallery, Cleveland OH
09/88 Raffle/Ritchie/Smith/Stuart; Studio Gallery, Cleveland OH
07/88 Spaces Gallery: 2 man installation; Cleveland OH
07/88 Cleveland Public Theatre; Cleveland OH
06/88 Mac's Backs Paperbacks; Coventry OH
06/88 Junkstock: installation; Cleveland OH
05/88 Cleveland Edition Newsroom; Cleveland OH
03/88 Pagan Rights: Geoffrey Taber Gallery; Columbus OH
01/88 Literary Cafe; Cleveland OH
Poetry Readings
11/88 The Shire; CSU, Cleveland OH
11/88 The Shire; CSU, Cleveland OH
11/88 Recurring Irritations; Tremont OH
09/88 Coventry Village Library; Coventry OH
06/88 Junkstock; Pearl Road Junkyard, Cleveland OH
06/88 Mac's Backs Paperbacks; Coventry OH
03/88 Mac's Backs Paperbacks; Coventry OH
02/88 Songs of Love & Lust; WCSB 89.3 FM radio, Cleveland OH
01/88 The Barking Spider; Cleveland OH
01/88 Spaces Gallery; Cleveland OH
01/88 JB's; Kent OH
01/88 Mac's Backs Paperbacks; Coventry OH

Publications
12/88 Brain Cell #110; Japan
12/88 The Coventry Reader #3; Coventry OH - 3 poems
11/88 ArtCrimes #6; Cleveland OH - 2 collages, 4 poems
11/88 Prehistoric Life Magazine; Cleveland OH - 1 collage
10/88 Brain Cell #102; Japan
09/88 Taproot #10; Cleveland OH - 1 collage
07/88 Artrageous #2; Cleveland OH - 1 profile of Wilcox
07/88 The Coventry Reader #1; Coventry OH 1 poem
05/88 Generator #2; Cleveland OH - 1 poem
05/88 ArtCrimes #5; Cleveland OH - 2 collages, 2 poems
05/88 Rizz; Cleveland OH - 3 poems
03/88 In The Mail; Lakewood OH - 1 collage
01/88 Artcrimes #4; Cleveland OH - 2 collages, 7 poems
01/88 In The Mail; Lakewood OH - 1 collage
01/88 Brain Cell #75, 76 & 77; Japan - 1 poem, 2 graphics

Questions? Comments! about Smith's artwork...
e mail smith at smithcrimes @-sign yahoo dot com