"SMITH contemporary is different from mainstream art galleries because of its mission, curatorial focus, and intention. We draw upon and champion the artist with a voice redefining all mediums of contemporary art. SMITH contemporary exhibits important, meaningful and necessary exhibitions from emerging, mid-career, mature (established), and blue chip artists. A majority of the work we exhibit articulates the current and past socio-political climate. Our artists have a signature, a sense of purpose and stand for something. We are more aligned with a museums focus on preservation, education and awareness. We want our community and the public at large to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of the World we inhabit and co-exist in hopes being a catalyst for humanity."

DIRECTOR & CURATOR

Terrence Sanders-Smith has contributed to the landscape of contemporary art as an artist, gallerist, curator, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Artvoices Magazine, Turnstile Magazine, Art Thug Magazine (ATM) and Artvoices Books. Sanders-Smith’s mission as Editor-In-Chief of Artvoices Magazine (Established 2008) was to create a platform for emerging, neglected and under recognized artists who were creating necessary, important and relevant works of art. Sanders-Smith is the Father of noted artist Lucien Smith. Sanders-Smith has directed and curated art spaces: Terrence Sanders Gallery (New Orleans), Untitled Art Projects (Los Angeles), Sanders, Smith & Stokes (New Orleans), Artists 101 (Los Angeles), and the Makeshift Museum (Los Angeles) exhibiting hundreds of artists. Sanders-Smith has curated over 50 exhibitions and private art collections including: ’60 Americans, ‘We Got Next,’ (CalArts MFA Students), the ‘Saratoga and the Smith & Wisznia’ collections now in the permanent collection of the Alexandria Museum of Art.

ASSOCIATE CURATOR

Caitlin Desobry graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Art history. She is currently attending the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU to receive her masters of arts in art history. Her research is focused on curation in practice, as it relates to modern, post- modern, and contemporary art in the Americas and Europe. She has made contributions to Artvoices magazine.