Josh Smith - Welcome to America - 2024
Josh Smith does it all – sculptural necklaces, ceramics, collages, prints, even a web series. And yet his main preoccupation has always been painting. Swinging from figurative archetypes – palm trees, fish, skeletons, grim reapers – to abstract tangles of color, Smith’s work orbits around the disquiet that arises when individuality meets repetition.
For Spike, he reworked stencils into a woodcut that displays a boyish yet gloomy scenery of stars, bats, ghosts, serpents, and eerie bug-like forms.
“Woodcut has a raw, tactile quality that strips everything down to its essentials – a quality I’ve always been drawn to in painting and printmaking. It feels regal, and also clumsily American.”
Medium: Woodcut on Rolled Okawara paper
Size: 76 x 51 cm
Edition of 30 + 5 AP
Signed and numbered
Price: € 1,000
You can order this Josh Smith woodcut print from Spike Magazine.
