Josh Smith Reflects on Mortality in New Grim Reaper Sculpture

American artist Josh Smith has worked with Case Studyo on a new ceramic sculptured entitled IN THE DARKEST DESPAIR A SPARK OF HOPE LIES WITHIN US.Based in New York City, Smith first rose to prominence in the 2000s through vibrant paintings that incorporated his own name as both a signature and conceptual framework to conflate the boundaries between authorship and artistic production. Over the past two decades, Smith has veered more towards abstraction, taking recognizable motifs -- fish, skeleto...