Lucien Smith Is Not Letting People's Fears Get To Him

Lucien Smith was already a professional artist at the young age of 21. He ran a studio with his own assistants while studying at Cooper Union and sold his paintings for thousands of dollars at auction. His current sale record is $389,000 USD for his Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree (2011) which sold at Phillips New York in 2013. In his early years as an artist, Smith's practice involved accidental and improvisational markings to create loose motifs in his dyna...