Born: 1961 in Charlottesville, Virginia
 
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lancaster Museum of Art
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Carrie Nicholson, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Visa Corporation
Brownstein Hyatt Farber
Post & Schell
Novartis Corporation
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA.
2006
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL.
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2005
Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ.
Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL.
2004
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE.
2003
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ.
Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2002
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA.
Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME.
Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2001
Esther M. Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Art Mecca, Chicago, IL.
2000
Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY.
Right Brain Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
1999
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA.
1998
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE.
University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA.
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Into Intuition: Towards a Redefinition, University Galleries at Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD.
2007
Encaustic Works 2007, Sixth International Biennial Exhibition juried by Joan Snyder,
The Gallery at R&F and Watermark/Cargo Gallery, Kingston, NY.
Shades of White, Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC.
Surface & Beyond, Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ.
2006
Order(ed), Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA.
Bridge Art Fair Miami, Miami, FL.
ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL.
Ancestors: In Search of Source, Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, LA.
2005
The Urban Canvas, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA.
Art Miami, represented by the Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Oil and Wax, Wallingford Arts Center, Wallingford, PA.
2004
Spiritual Abstractions, Segalas Gallery, Bernardsville, NJ.
Saving Philadelphia - The Art of the Dumpster Divers, Sedgwick Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Inner Circles, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA.
Traveled to Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA.
2003 I
nternational Biennale of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy.
The Future in Wax, The Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Harrisburg, PA.
Africanisms Unmasked, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA.
2002
The African Spirit in Contemporary Art, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA.
Unforgettable, Berlin Kunstproject, Berlin, Germany.
Mnemonic: A 9/11 Memorial Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, Long Island City, NY.
Pigment & Wax: Art of Encaustic Painting, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH.
2001
USArtists American Fine Art Show, 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA.
Soho-Myriad, Atlanta, GA.
2000
SOFA CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.
Burrison Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
1999
Beginnings & Endings, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE.
Side by Side Invitational, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA.
1998
Leaps of Faith: The Language of Symbols, Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
1997
Pushing the Limit, Artforms, Philadelphia, PA
Art and Religion: The Many Faces of Faith, Villanova University Art Gallery, Villanova, PA.
1996
Abstraction, DOSHI Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA.
Two Up, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA.
 
GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, August 2006.
Artist-in-Residence, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC, September-November 2004.
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Special Opportunity Stipend, 2003-04.
Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Grant, 2000.
 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Libby Rosof, Order(ed), ARTBLOG, May 18, 2006.
Roberta Fallon, Beauty, Order and Individuality, catalogue essay for the exhibition Order(ed), May 2006.
Alan Atner, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, April 7, 2006.
Peter Frank, Gail Foster, Thomas Swanston, Tremain Smith, LA WEEKLY, October 21, 2005.
Mark Ormond, Allyn Gallup presents paintings of Grabowsky, Moment and Smith, PELICAN PRESS, June 23, 2005.
Rick Sablove, Susquehanna Art Museum Exhibits 360 Degrees of Unity, CENTRAL ALTERNATIVE, September 2004.
Zachary Lewis, Art to Bring You Full Circle (Back Again), THE PATRIOT-NEWS, July 18, 2004.
Geoff Gehman, Inner Circles Exhibit Stretches and Burns, THE MORNING CALL, February 2004.
Ellen Slupe, Inside Pennsylvania, ART MATTERS, September 2003.
Edward Sozanski, Looking to Africa, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, March 7, 2003.
Victoria Donohoe, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, February 16, 2003.
Ellen Slupe, Ritual Power in Bold Form, ART MATTERS, February 2003.
Karen Quinones Miller, Of Wax and Social Commitment, ART MATTERS, October 2002.
Susan Lindt, Smith's Work Rewards Close Inspection, INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL, September 20, 2002.
Jamie Malernee, A Spiritual Experience, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN- SENTINEL, January 2002.
Joanne Mattera, The Art of Encaustic Painting Contemporary Expressions in the Ancient Medium
of Pigmented Wax, Watson-Guptill, 2001.
R.B. Straus, More Changes Than the Seasons, ART MATTERS, September 2001.
New American Paintings, Volume 21, The Open Studio Press, 1999.
Gerard Brown, You Have To Be There, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY, May 1999.
Edward Sozanski, Roots, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, April 30, 1999.
Patricia Phillips, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Visiting Critic 1998, November 1998.
Astrid Bowlby, Too Much of a Good Thing, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY, August 12, 1998.
Gerard Brown, Ritual Reminders, THE PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY, July 15, 1998.
 
EDUCATION
1991-94 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
1985 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Bachelor of Arts
1980-81 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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