Mel Smothers is an American contemporary artist born in the west coast of the USA in 1947. Smothers evolved as an artist in the Pop Art America during the 60’s and 70”s, working alongside his contemporary Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud.
Thiebaud would later become Smothers’ University professor and a forefront figure of the American Pop Art.
Smothers is well established in the USA. He was honored with selection by Cooper-Union to exhibit in the ‘Emerging Artists of the Year Exhibition, 2006’ in New York City. In 2022 he received the Craft Nouveau Award at Blueline Arts in California for his sculpture. He has held numerous exhibitions in museums and gallery collections, participated in art fairs and art projects. Smothers has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles as well as Art Fairs in Brussels, Monaco,
Singapore, Berlin.
Solo, group, public art commissions in NYC, Miami, Chicago, and San Francisco. MFA University of Idaho.
“Art Takes Time Square,” Catalog, New York City. 2012
“Wedding Book,” self-published, New York City. 2010
“Conscious Reader, 11e”, Longman Publishers, New York City, 2008. ISBN: 0205661681X . Digital edition, 2010.
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