CARL E. SMITH
FAST COMPANY

June 19 - July 15, 2010

June 19th, 2010 (Laguna Beach, CA)

CARL E. SMITH - solo art show
"Fast Company"

Fresh off his latest showing in San Francisco, CA,
Laguna Beach resident and native Carl E. Smith comes home with “Fast Company” - celebrating the opening of new gallery 210 AR4T SPACE in North Laguna Beach.

In Fast Company, Carl E. Smith collages icons and other colorful particles from contemporary visual culture and the industries it comes from. Music, fashion, technology, print; fast-moving industries where the newest-hottest obsolesces its own previous iteration -- Smith moves even faster to cull, cut and capture icons and particles from trade publications and reconstitutes them into fantastic and colorful compositions. Butterflies, bubble gum, bombers, glossy lipstick; suspended symbols mash up like raw snapshots right from dreams.

ABOUT CARL E. SMITH

Carl E. Smith is a California based artist and graphic designer. His recent work mostly includes collages that convey the beauty, excitement, ruin and rebirth of iconic elements from our everyday lives. Using symbols, colors, and space, Smith created explosive images that seem to question his existence and its place somewhere between archetypical fantasy and truth.

Carl was born and raised in the artist colony of Laguna Beach, California. From 1997 to 2004 Smith lived and worked in Prague, Czech Republic. He has shown in small and large scale shows internationally since 1998.