Ed Smith is a member of the National Academy, a Guggenheim Fellow
in Sculpture and Drawing and a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
His work is represented in public and private collections in the United States
and abroad. These include The British Museum, The Royal Museum of Fine Arts,
Antwerp Belgium, Ministry of the Flemish Community, The Hood Museum, the Davis
Museum, Yale University, the National Academy Museum and many more. He has
over 70 one-person exhibitions and innumerable group exhibitions which include,
the Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Scotland, Hillwood Art Museum, Caversham Press South Africa, Fleming Museum,
Schenectady Museum, The Albright Knox Museum, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum,
The Arkell Museum and many others.
The great playwright Edward Albee once described Ed Smith’s work as
“excavations of the mind. . . powerful, provocative and disturbing”. Critics, curators
and artists describe Smith and his work as “. . . an avenging phoenix rising from the
ashes of Abstract Expressionism. . . ” “. . . heroic notes to the sculptural friezes of
ancient Greece.” “ . . . elegance, a forthrightness, a sense of security and intellectual
power.” and “. . . a modern day Albert Pinkham Ryder.”
Actions are the best descriptions and herein lay the selected small work of
late. … his actions. The images represented inside are a small selection of recent
diminutive works in bronze, silver and terra-cotta relief.
His work has been written about
and reviewed in the New York Times,
Sculpture Magazine, The Baltimore
Evening Sun, Art News, the Miami
Herald, The Albany Times Union,
Giornale Dell’Arte, San Francisco
Examiner, Art New England and many
others.