Roxa Smith

Roxa Smith

Born in Venezuela / Works in Brooklyn, NY
BIO
Roxa Smith is a Brooklyn-based artist working in painting and collage. Born and raised in Venezuela, she received a BA from Bowdoin College and a Postgraduate degree in Art from UCSC. A NYFA Painting Fellow and NYFA-Basil Alkazzi Award recipient, Roxa has exhibited widely nationally including C24 Gallery and George Billis Gallery in NYC and LA, and The Sheldon Museum, NE. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, The Brooklyn Rail and Contemporary Collage Magazine.
My artistic practice transforms domestic scenes, landscapes and everyday objects into celebrations of the mundane. Drawing from my Venezuelan heritage, my paintings are filled with lush color, intricate patterns and an aesthetic influenced by naive and outsider art. In my collages, I play with form and cast shadows of bicycles and chairs to create quirky constructions that distort the picture plane. I blend actual spaces with imagined visions, creating familiar yet idiosyncratic narratives that honor the poetry in everyday life.
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