Reception: Denny Smith - In Color

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
The Spotlight Gallery @ The ARTS
32 W. Market St
Corning, NY 14830
607-962-5871 x223
Website: www.earts.org

An exhibition of recent artworks by Allen Crittenden Smith will be on display at the Spotlight Gallery @ The ARTS. Smith states: "I was an art student cranked out of the late modernist school back in the 1970's. My teachers were second-generation abstract expressionists. Post-modernism was happening all around us, but it hadn't been validated yet. My strong work ethic drove me to support my family with a regular job. Now, at 60, I'm doing what I should have done at 25. I'm not a conceptualist. I make things - paintings and drawings." Allen C. Smith (his friends know him as Denny) is an artist living and working in Elmira, New York. Recent exhibitions include the 2009 Rochester-Finger Lakes Biennial, awards at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira and State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, and group shows at Exhibit A and 171 Cedar Arts Center in Corning and the Atrium Gallery in Troy, NY.