Works
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Early Morning", 2022
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Early Morning", 2022
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  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Fall Color", 2022
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Fall Color", 2022
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Field of Order", 2022
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Field of Order", 2022
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Low Light II", 2022
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Low Light II", 2022
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Nature's Solitude", 2022
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Nature's Solitude", 2022
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Solitary Man 1", 2022
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Solitary Man 1", 2022
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Solitary Man 2", 2022
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Solitary Man 2", 2022
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Solitary Man 3", 2022
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Solitary Man 3", 2022
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Solitary Man 6", 2022
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Solitary Man 6", 2022
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Solitary Man 8", 2022
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Solitary Man 8", 2022
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  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Castle Rock Wash", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Castle Rock Wash", 2021
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Cowboy in Plaid", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Cowboy in Plaid", 2021
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Harvested Field", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Harvested Field", 2021
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Looking West", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Looking West", 2021
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  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Low Light", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Low Light", 2021
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Majestic Sky", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Majestic Sky", 2021
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Old Fence", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Old Fence", 2021
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Pleasant Valley", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Pleasant Valley", 2021
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Quiet Place", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Quiet Place", 2021
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Rolling Thunder", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Rolling Thunder", 2021
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Sun up to Sundown", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Sun up to Sundown", 2021
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Winter Patterns", 2021
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Winter Patterns", 2021
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Desert Wash", 2020
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Desert Wash", 2020
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Painted Desert", 2020
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Painted Desert", 2020
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Desert Sundown", 2019
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Desert Sundown", 2019
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Desert Sunset", 2019
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Desert Sunset", 2019
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Man With Red Barn", 2019
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Man With Red Barn", 2019
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Threatening Storm", 2019
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Threatening Storm", 2019
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Arizona Cotton", 2018
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Arizona Cotton", 2018
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  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Profile in Red and Blue", 2018
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Profile in Red and Blue", 2018
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Field End", 2017
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Field End", 2017
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Desert Tranquility", 2016
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Desert Tranquility", 2016
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  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Lone Bale", 2014
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Lone Bale", 2014
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "At Sunset"
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "At Sunset"
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "New Growth"
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "New Growth"
  • Gary Ernest Smith, "Pastureland"
    Gary Ernest Smith
    "Pastureland"
Biography
Lauded by critics and collectors alike, the art of Gary Ernest Smith resonates in the mind and memory of contemporary America.

Lauded by critics and collectors alike, the art of Gary Ernest Smith resonates in the mind and memory of contemporary America. Over the past years the artist’s one-man shows have attracted the attention of collectors from coast to coast. His three year exhibit, “Journey I Search of Lost Images” hung in 22 museums and institutes across the United States. In an exhibit curated by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, his work toured the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, San Jose Museum of Art, the Palm Springs Desert Museum and many more prestigious art institutions. Although he must strictly limit the number of commissions he accepts, his mural size paintings are highly prized by corporate collectors.

Gary Ernest Smith was born and raised in a relatively isolated farm community 25 miles northeast of Baker City, Oregon. His interests and intensity for painting began at an early age and progressed through college degrees, numerous commissions and awards to a full time pursuit of painting.

The commission work that dominated the early years eventually stifled his creativity. Dissatisfaction with this career direction forced him to reach inward and search beyond popular style and accepted artistic norms to a personal vision.

Following years of artistic training and experimentation, subject matter began to emerge based on the artist’s background of a rural life-style that celebrates the values of hard work and self-reliance. These aspects of Smith’s life came together and became the catalyst for his distinctive style. Living in the west, his work is primarily of that region, but it is not western in the traditional sense.

Although it defies precise classification, the artist considers his style “minimal” and seeks to express the essence and simplicity of each subject. Whatever the focus might be, his work expresses the artistic elements of bold form and color. These two components become the vehicle that melds the style and subject into a symbolic visual language, expanding the artistic appeal beyond the west to captivate the attention of a sophisticated urban audience.

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