Lucien Smith: Southampton Suite
August 7, 2020 – January 31, 2021
Parrish Art Museum
279 Montauk Highway in Water Mill

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At the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, the Montauk-based painter Lucien Smith (b. 1989) will exhibit the ten final works he created as part of his iconic Rain Paintings series. Smith began the body of work in 2011, discovering that filling fire extinguishers with acrylic paint enabled him to make quick, improvisational gestures whose light, ethereal end result expressed something he hadn’t been able to attain with traditional mark-making methods. He made the majority of Rain Paintings in 2011 and 2012, then gave the technique a final encore in 2013 while staying in Southampton for the summer – the result of which constitutes the Southampton Suite that will be on view at the Parrish. Each canvas in the series is nine by seven feet.

Smith owns all ten of the works that will be on loan to the Parrish, and considers the exhibition to be a major nod to his philosophy that artists don't need gallery representation to attain the career milestone of an institutional exhibition.

A preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Image reuse must be with credit to Lucien Smith, unless otherwise noted in the file title.