Studio 17

Zack Smithey

Interdisciplinary

Zack Smithey is an interdisciplinary artist working in many different styles and media. He is continually evolving, exploring new concepts, designs, and creative processes. Smithey has been working as a professional artist for the last 20 years. In addition to showing in galleries, he also builds functional art (furniture), paints murals, and enjoys working with designers, agents, and clients to bring their vision to life. He is prolific, with an enormous body of work divided into a number of separate series consisting of hundreds of pieces in his current inventory and over 3,000 original pieces in public and private collections. 

In addition to art, Zack built the first 3 shipping container homes in the St. Louis area (St. Charles, 2016) (Old North Neighborhood, STL, 2019, 3 stories, 9 containers) (Tiffany Park Neighborhood, 4 containers). See his home on NETFLIX - Amazing Interiors, episode 3, house 2.

Smithey has had over 100 solo and group shows, has done art/film work for Lincoln Center in NYC (YouTube - A Short Film for the End of Time), created a series of art videos for world renowned pianist Inon Barnatan (YouTube - Darknesse Visible), is the creator of the Easter Art Hunt in STL, was commissioned to do album art for Smother Party a band in Brooklyn, and has been published in the New Yorker, CURBED, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis At Home Magazine, All The Art, St. Louis Magazine, StreetScapes Magazine, St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, Uptown Magazine, Community News, Lindenwood Connection, and St. Charles Magazine. He has been covered/interviewed on NETFLIX, NBC, Fox, CBS, and USA Today.

CONTACT

smitheygallery@gmail.com

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