Untitled from Harold Smith’s Men of Color series
Harold Smith
Harold Smith is a mid-career artist and an educator for the past 35 years. Smith is a Kansas City born and based visual artist. He has been internationally exhibited and collected. His work includes painting, collage,mixed media, performance, video, sound, and assemblage.
Smith’s practice is grounded in the social commentary tradition of figurative urban expressionism embodied by artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Kerry James Marshall, and others. His broad practice addresses issues regarding the complexity of the black male experience in the Western world. Smith seeks to explore the tension between Westernized attitudes towards and societal perceptions of black masculinity and how these attitudes and perceptions impact it. His usage of clashing palettes and aggressive strokes creates a visual incarnation of the issues addressed in his work.
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