Joseph Smolinski Primary Medium: Drawing Other media: Watercolor, Animation, Installation Keywords: Landscape, Nature, Technology

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Artist Statement
The subjects in my drawings and digital animations include parasitic cell tower trees that populate the landscape becoming historic landmarks, roadside curiosities and subjects of natural disasters. Spinning Tree Turbines that utilize an environmental design to blend into the landscape in order to provide clean energy to fuel the suburban lifestyle of excess and consumption. Visions of a future where big oil companies have succeeded in their aims to drill for oil near Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty on the Great Salt Lake in Utah only to meet an act of resistance. Finally, a series of drawings that poses animals against the technology that destroys their habitat and offspring.

These projects come together to reflect on our current interactions with the landscape. Together they pose questions about the notion of control of the environment and envision an optimistic and apocalyptic view of the future.

A solo exhibition at Seton Gallery will be on view Sept. 3rd - Oct. 4th.












Artist Bio
EDUCATION
2001 M.F.A. University of Connecticut-Storrs
1994- 99 B.F.A University of Wisconsin- River Falls

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009
Ground Control, (solo) Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
Solution, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
Seduced, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT
Our Present Planet, The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ

2008
After the Fall, (solo) Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Full Circle: Ten Years of Radius, Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Smolinski/Stoetzel, Miami, FL.
TREES: Christopher Elliot, Deborah Weiss and Joseph Smolinski,
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Badlands, curated by Denise Markonish, Massachusetts Museum
of Contemporary Art, MA
Cultivate, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA

2007
Connecticut Contemporary, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of
Art, Hartford, CT.
The Elements: AIR, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred
Heart University, CT
Road Trip, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Convergence: Collaborative and Individual Works By Trifocal
Projects, Todd Jokl . Jessica Schwind . Joseph Smolinski,
Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, CT
Landscape vs. Netscape, Unit B (Gallery), San Antonio, TX
Modeling the Photographic, Curated by Saul Ostrow
McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
Follies: Allegorical Constructions, OHT Gallery, Boston, MA

2006
Transmission, (solo) Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Works on Paper, Flux Factory, Long island City, NY.
Endless Forms, Engaging Evoloution, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI.

2005
Dreaming of a More Better Future, Curated by Saul Ostrow and
Stuart Horodner, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH

2004
Energy Potential, (solo) ArtSpace New Haven, CT.
Shifting Affinities, Yale School of Art, Green Hall Gallery, New
Haven, CT.
Radius, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT.

2003
Vistas: Interventions in a Mediated Landscape, Curated by
Denise Markonish, Mount Ida College, Newton, MA
Info@Blah, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA

2002
Regeneration, (solo) Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT

2000
Engraving Centre 1997-2000, Engraving Centre, Thessaloniki,
Greece
Interprint 2000, Alsdorfer Kunstverein, Alsdorf, Germany

COLLECTIONS

West Collection at SEI
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery

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