ANTHONY SMITH JR, ARTIST
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      • Drawings and Small Works >
        • Puppet Pal Friends Hold Fast To Hard Dreams
        • Maxatawny Stitzer
        • 100 Bitter Lemons
        • Mari's Hospitality
        • Maelstrom Leviathan Abyssal Charming
        • Onset Boxes
        • Baby Love
        • Puppet Pal Friends Be Dues Paying Dudes
        • Bethpage Air
        • Remembering Johnson
        • The Longwood 8
        • Puppet Pal Friends Look Meek And Smile Happy
        • Hot At Concert
        • Pecks
        • Maybe Baby
        • Puppet Pal Friends Say Our And Are
        • Behold, The Loathsome Temple of Doom
        • Patrick's Menagerie
        • A Kracken Massage
        • Puppet Pal Friends French Kiss and Go Down
        • Original Eight in Apotheosis with the Isley Brothers
        • How Do You Stop A Flying Dreadnought
        • Puppet Pal Friends Talk So Ghetto
        • What Happens to Garden Flowers
        • The Vixen Virgen Mermaid of the Sargasso Sea >
          • Poetry for the Vixen Virgin Mermaid of the Sargasso Sea
          • The Making of the Vixen Virgin Mermaid of the Sargasso Sea No. 6
        • The Magnificent Concert
        • Metastopolis Here I Come
        • The Lovers at the Temple
        • Cannon Style Monsters
        • Whose Prester John
        • The Subwall Set
        • Older Series of Drawing and Small Works Gallery >
          • Thick with Bensalem
          • Gamers Sistahs and Mommas
          • Aluminum Pixie Pus
          • Sometimes Maybe
          • Puppet Pal Friends
          • None Want Masters
        • Works Not in A Series
      • Large Works >
        • Adela's Bouquet
        • Malik's B-Boy Blues
        • Kenny's Carpetbaggers Lament
        • The Twelve Gnostic Confessions of St Bartholomew The Lame
        • Sea of Japan
        • Higg(ins) Bosons
        • At Tom And Mike's Wedding
        • Timmy's Porch Petunias
        • Friends Are My Solar System
        • Four Seasons
        • The Hotness in Concert >
          • The Making of The Hotness in Concert No. 1
        • Mathew Likes Darkies Best
        • Installation at the Vermont Studio Center (Conspiracy of the Gods)
        • Installation at ReFind of Easton (Mephistopolis)
        • Pilot (Or How Do You Stop A Flying Dreadnought) >
          • Making of Pilot, (Or How to Stop A Flying Dreadnought) No. 3
        • The Deadly Papa Butum >
          • Making of The Deadly Papa Butum No 2
        • Dreaming of Mongolian Green
        • Installation at the Andrew Freedman Home
        • Pinball, Billards, Dominoes and Spades
        • Installation at The Cigar Factory
        • Installation at Schoen's Building Allentown Pennsylvania
        • Who Is Prester John
        • The Contrition Set
        • Older Series of Large Works Gallery >
          • Toss Whirl and Pass
          • The Can Set
          • Leaving Bensalem
          • Struts
          • Bensalem Set
          • Wanted
        • Works Not in A Series
      • Sketches >
        • Animal Kingdom Bangers
        • The Banger Set
        • Winter in New Haven
        • Gold Paper Sketches
        • Naughty DVD Covers
        • Orange Paper Sketches
        • Card Sketches
        • Struts and Flags
        • Old Lady Sketches
        • Celtic Tiles
        • Your Fear Of
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Anthony Smith received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Amherst College (1999) and an M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Michigan (2001). Smith also studied wood-block printmaking in Kyoto, Japan at Kyoto Seika University in 2001. He has recently showed in the Bethlehem House Gallery at their "Holiday Show". Notable exhibits include the the “Mid-Atlantic Painting 2016” exhibit at the University of Mary Washington Fredericksburg, Virginia the “Tribute to Michelangelo” show at CrisolArts Gallery in Barcelona, Spain in 2013, the Art Now: Painting 2015 exhibit at the Ann Arbor Art Center in Ann Arbor Michigan,  the 2014 “Artist Chain Reaction Competition” at the Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx, the 2013 Fuse Arts Infrastructure Cigar Factory and Schoen's Building shows in Allentown PA, and the 2010 “Sailing the Barbarous Coast” show (which traveled to the New Art Center in Newton, MA, University Galleries, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and the Walker Point Art Center, Milwaukee, WI). Also notable was the 2008 “Runaway” show at the University of Texas Pan-American Gallery in McAllen TX for which he received a Puffin Foundation grant.  He has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Detroit Free Press, The Ann Arbor News and the Artist’s Magazine. Anthony has taught at such institutions as the University of Michigan, Parsons, Princeton and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland. Smith served as an artist-in-residence at the National Academy of Design (2006 – 2008), and at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont in 2016. Most recently he has taught at Lehigh University in Bethlehem Pa (2012), and as a visiting artist and adjunct professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown Pa (2014- 2018). Additionally, Anthony received a Project Stream grant from the Lehigh Valley Arts Council (2016) to complete the Dreadnought series of paintings. He lives in Allentown Pennsylvania with a studio at the Banana Factory Art Center in Bethlehem, PA.



  • Home
  • About
    • Biography
    • Artist Statement
  • Blog
  • Exhibitions
    • Professional Experience
  • Galleries
    • Featured Works
    • Archived >
      • Drawings and Small Works >
        • Puppet Pal Friends Hold Fast To Hard Dreams
        • Maxatawny Stitzer
        • 100 Bitter Lemons
        • Mari's Hospitality
        • Maelstrom Leviathan Abyssal Charming
        • Onset Boxes
        • Baby Love
        • Puppet Pal Friends Be Dues Paying Dudes
        • Bethpage Air
        • Remembering Johnson
        • The Longwood 8
        • Puppet Pal Friends Look Meek And Smile Happy
        • Hot At Concert
        • Pecks
        • Maybe Baby
        • Puppet Pal Friends Say Our And Are
        • Behold, The Loathsome Temple of Doom
        • Patrick's Menagerie
        • A Kracken Massage
        • Puppet Pal Friends French Kiss and Go Down
        • Original Eight in Apotheosis with the Isley Brothers
        • How Do You Stop A Flying Dreadnought
        • Puppet Pal Friends Talk So Ghetto
        • What Happens to Garden Flowers
        • The Vixen Virgen Mermaid of the Sargasso Sea >
          • Poetry for the Vixen Virgin Mermaid of the Sargasso Sea
          • The Making of the Vixen Virgin Mermaid of the Sargasso Sea No. 6
        • The Magnificent Concert
        • Metastopolis Here I Come
        • The Lovers at the Temple
        • Cannon Style Monsters
        • Whose Prester John
        • The Subwall Set
        • Older Series of Drawing and Small Works Gallery >
          • Thick with Bensalem
          • Gamers Sistahs and Mommas
          • Aluminum Pixie Pus
          • Sometimes Maybe
          • Puppet Pal Friends
          • None Want Masters
        • Works Not in A Series
      • Large Works >
        • Adela's Bouquet
        • Malik's B-Boy Blues
        • Kenny's Carpetbaggers Lament
        • The Twelve Gnostic Confessions of St Bartholomew The Lame
        • Sea of Japan
        • Higg(ins) Bosons
        • At Tom And Mike's Wedding
        • Timmy's Porch Petunias
        • Friends Are My Solar System
        • Four Seasons
        • The Hotness in Concert >
          • The Making of The Hotness in Concert No. 1
        • Mathew Likes Darkies Best
        • Installation at the Vermont Studio Center (Conspiracy of the Gods)
        • Installation at ReFind of Easton (Mephistopolis)
        • Pilot (Or How Do You Stop A Flying Dreadnought) >
          • Making of Pilot, (Or How to Stop A Flying Dreadnought) No. 3
        • The Deadly Papa Butum >
          • Making of The Deadly Papa Butum No 2
        • Dreaming of Mongolian Green
        • Installation at the Andrew Freedman Home
        • Pinball, Billards, Dominoes and Spades
        • Installation at The Cigar Factory
        • Installation at Schoen's Building Allentown Pennsylvania
        • Who Is Prester John
        • The Contrition Set
        • Older Series of Large Works Gallery >
          • Toss Whirl and Pass
          • The Can Set
          • Leaving Bensalem
          • Struts
          • Bensalem Set
          • Wanted
        • Works Not in A Series
      • Sketches >
        • Animal Kingdom Bangers
        • The Banger Set
        • Winter in New Haven
        • Gold Paper Sketches
        • Naughty DVD Covers
        • Orange Paper Sketches
        • Card Sketches
        • Struts and Flags
        • Old Lady Sketches
        • Celtic Tiles
        • Your Fear Of
  • Contact
    • Links