About Jerrod Smith

"Emerging from the Oklahoma art scene, Jerrod Smith has found success in collaborating with other artists to make Oklahoma a community that supports young artists. Smith's collection of mixed media work expresses personal thoughts and his every day life through pre-existing images of past generations. His work is not just a collection of artifacts and old pictures, but also paintings. With a B.F.A from the University of Central Oklahoma, he has studied painting, photography, screen printing and other media and has found himself drawn to incorporating them all. "With mixed media there are no restrictions to re-creating the images in my head," Smith said. In much of his work the style used is emulated from the aged quality of a photograph that has been folded up and crinkled from riding around in a wallet. He sees sympathy in the connection people have with images of the past, especially when he can view the bumps, scratches and tears of age in his materials. Smith has shown throughout Oklahoma City and is broadening his network within the next year to extend out of the state. Previous shows have included IAO Gallery, Firehouse Art Center;Norman, A.K.A. Gallery, 611 Creative, World's Fair Music (home of management for the Flaming Lips) and others all in 2007. Jerrod currently works for nationally and internationally known bronze sculptor David Phelps and will continue to study under him until graduate school. "I am excited about my future as an artists and look forward to sharing my work with a broad spectrum of people."