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Sometimes frequently updated, sometimes abandoned, but usually the most attended-to part of the site.
Splash page featuring splash art, new material & quick links to recently updated galleries.
Sometimes frequently updated, sometimes abandoned, but usually the most attended-to part of the site.
Information of all kinds, exhibition listing and some self-indulgent art theory writings.
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For the year 2021, I am publishing a book each month; this page will keep an overview of the project and its concept.
Coming soon.
A 36-page reflection on the stress felt during the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, plus my first short fiction in years.
The first release from the Gap Year Book Club is a self-portrait of life until a moment it feels past.
A new iteration of the Distorted Perspective masthead returns as a zine—this project evolved into the Gap Year Book Club, yet the single issue remains.
Every so often I release a summary of work under the Distorted Perspective masthead as an art book; this, the third, constitutes 2012-2019.
An experiment of mixing projects—You Were Looking Away and the Dissonance Polaroids—and a reduced set of poems for content.
A meditation on the individual and the mind that comes with being one, this was as much a project about the format of the book as it was the content.
A digital magazine made to antagonize magazine culture at the time co-published with photographer Brenton Salo.
Digital collage poster series born at the outset of the pandemic, taking in an endless stream of non-information about subjects the media didn’t know about.
A giant emotional mess of a project that basically has become a variety of ways to aesthetically destroy scenes of flower fields.
A 12-page single-edition book of hand-painted black rectangles in an examination of the subtle differences in darkness.
Large-scale assemblies exploring the fundamental ideas of the invisible energy that bonds us all.
A gallery of posters advertising DIY art shows at warehouse spaces in Portland; often designed the day before the show, and posted the morning of.
A collection of works that look to past ideas & ‘art school theory’ as inertia for experimenting with familiar mediums in new ways.
A series of sketchbooks drawn over the course of six months, intensely concentrating on the various factors in my life that had seemed to change my relationship with art.
Connect-the-dots based self-portraiture based in the identity crisis of being online and associated by correlations.
The idea of art as a threat, or what pictures on paper are dangerous versus which ones aren’t, can be a real head trip.
Over the years, I’ve found my personal place of zen rests in obsessively making parallel lines—this is a gallery of attempts to create a public-facing project from the personal experiences.
Part of a larger project, this is a gallery of unapologetic sociopolitical propaganda.
Film-based street photos from locations outside of the United States. This gallery rotates images from a growing collection bi-annually. Last updated in early 2021.
Film-based street photos from around the USA. Made in both settings of travel and everyday life, this is a rotating gallery of images. Updated February 2021.
Digital stills from daily life while living in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.
A rotating selection of digital stills made from photographing punk shows around the United States for the better part of a decade. Updated February 2021.
As technology increasingly controls photography, this analogue series uses what digital defines as a ‘weakness’ to create the shifting aesthetic of the photos.
An instant film-based series using the potential saturation of the format to create abstract color fields in each exposure.
A personal photo series exploring the strange, lonely spaces of empty public laundromats in San Francisco.
A rotating selection of daily images captured by a smartphone that range in content and location. Updated February 2021.
A sound-art project / ‘band’ born from impromptu live performances over a series of First Friday events. Full discography is available on Bandcamp.
Coming soon.
Colin Smith is an interdisciplinary artist & art director living & working in Los Angeles. His assembly-based work focuses on human nature and its relationship to media, language, time, and systems of control.
For more information, social links, as well as various writings on practice & theory, visit the about page.
To quickly get in touch, e-mail hello@.
This website is a hand-coded assembly built from the Skeleton framework and WordPress CMS; typeset in Plantin and Aktiv Grotesk by way of Adobe Fonts; hosted by Opalstack.
The primary navigation features a curated selection of work, while a mostly-complete archive dating back to 2015 is navigable by way of the Site Index.
All original content © to Colin Smith; please link back to this site or an associated media account when featuring work. Thank you for visiting.