Lucien Smith, Inventive Painter and Downtown Art-World Fixture, Dies at 37
Smith emerged from the New York art scene with an inventive practice that stretched painting far beyond the brush. The post Lucien Smith, Inventive Painter and Downtown Art-World Fixture, Dies at 37 appeared first on Artnet News .
Lucien Smith, an abstract painter, has died at the age of 37. According to Hyperallergic, the cause of death has not been made public.
Smith was known for his inventive practice that stretched painting beyond the brush. He was best known for his Rain Paintings series, which he began making in 2011 by spraying canvases with acrylic paint loaded into fire extinguishers.
Smith was a fixture in the New York art scene, and later quit commercial galleries in 2015 to advocate for himself and others. He was born in 1989 in Los Angeles and raised in the Lower East Side until his teenage years.
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- Artist Lucien Smith, Fixture of NYC’s Downtown Scene, Dies at 37 hyperallergic.com
