Samantha Keely Smith

Taking inspiration from personal experiences, and music and classic literary sources, as much as from the art world itself, this 39-year-old British-born, New York-based artist is one of the most intriguing anomalies on the current American art scene.

Side-stepping “Vogueish” and self-conscious conceptual approaches, Ms. Smith creates a powerfully distinctive and eerily pure visual identity through using traditional forms of painterly expression in a profoundly personal way. More