About Chad Smalt
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka
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Resume
Chad Smalt
Oil Painter, Fine Artist
Bath , NY 14810
Email: felldays AT ya hoo com
Website: www.sky-in-session.com
Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Buffalo State College, 2003.
Career Program in Fine Arts with specialty in Oil Painting and Drawing.
Associate in Arts, Corning Community College , 2001.
Numerous workshops and seminars, 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning NY .
Exhibition Experience:
2004 to present
West End Gallery, Corning , NY
Commercial gallery; numerous group shows.
2008-2009
The Artists' House Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa
2005-2007
The Village Gallery, Hammondsport , NY
2004
Gmeiner Arts Center , Wellsboro , PA. Juried Group exhibition.
2001-2003
Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY.
Senior Art Exhibit. Also, numerous juried and non-juried student
exhibitions, including annual student shows.
Web Page:
http://www.sky-in-session.com
I've always been inspired by simply what is around me. Sometimes it's special, sometimes it's just ordinary, but it's always something that I experienced and I believe that has to mean something. The world is visually rich in many different ways and I enjoy seeking out and trying to capture certain spaces or moments that seem paint-able to me at the time, it could be obviously grand or easily overlooked, either way I think it all deserves a closer look and a thought or two.
Chad is a male part of the species. He typically wears T-shirts, but sometimes F-Shirts. He is most commonly found looking at things. He lives in new york, but not the city. Chad sleeps in a bed with 4 wheels, a guitar, and a stuffed mouse that sits on the floor. That's right a floor. He has pockets full of lint and holes where everything important to him just falls right on the floor. That's right he has a floor. So what. So what. His closest friend is named Linoleum. Chad once thought he saw something in the distance, no one believes it is still there, but he is still trying to paint it today. Chad believes it was never there. He believes that trying is the first step towards failure, and that failing is more respectable then winning. Because winning means that someone had to lose. Chad makes art because he cant think of anything better to do. True fact.
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