J O N AT H A N S M I T H : Water ways II SEPTEMBER 9 – OCTOBER 29, 2022
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S T RE A M # 41 BACK COVER
H O RIZON # 66
J O N AT H A N S M I T H : Waterways II SEPTEMBER 9 – OCTOBER 29, 2022
Foreword by:
JOEL MEYEROWITZ
FROZEN TIME I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Jon for over 20 years, and from our very
makes a work of art speak to us every time we enter its space. Like voyagers
first meeting in Dean and DeLuca’s on Broadway and Spring Street, until
before him, he has brought us news of regions on the furthest edge
right now, he has continued to evolve and deepen in both his artistic search
of habitable lands, and through his visions, he provokes our desire to
and in his personal growth. Back then, his youthful and wide-eyed hunger for
see them for ourselves.
photography drew me to him. I invited him to become a part of my studio,
JOEL MEYEROWITZ
where he brought fine craft, strong opinions, and a hilarious sense of humor to our everyday working lives. I was close by when he dueled with his new ideas, his struggles, and his accomplishments as he worked his way out of the corners we all sometimes find ourselves in. In the time after he left the studio—as all sidekicks must— he began to create bodies of work around New York that were visually challenging, socially engaged, beautiful, and often mysterious. They dealt with intimate spaces and grand urban scale, and they were his in the way that each of us develops ideas that spring from work that came before us, but which we learn how to make our own. And then he went to Iceland. When Jon came back from that first trip and brought over his new work, I knew in the first few minutes that he had become his own man, that this work of Streams and Rivers was his first true photographic invention. This work sustained a deep visual and emotional vision—one that had instinctively grown in him as he stood on the ice and snow and felt the spirit and force of nature call him to an understanding that carried him away like nothing else had before. This happens just a few times in the lives of artists, and when it does, it is everything we ever hope for. I could feel the heat and the thrill of it as my eyes took it in. There is nothing like seeing someone’s original thoughts appear and give new shape to our own understanding of a truth that nature alone can convey. This work, full of the ancient beauty of frozen time, grows larger in the mind as we sit before it. Jon has found a perfect and enduring sense of proportion, physicality, and spiritual beauty, seen within the light and texture of that demanding landscape. This ‘transport’ is no slight feat, it is what
above:
STREAM #6,
below:
STREAM #3
J O N AT H A N S M I T H Jonathan Smith spent the early years of his career assisting and printing for
presence, display a world lost in time. Often abstracted, these photographs
renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz, and has had solo exhibitions both
of mountain streams and glacial shifts are a reminder of the forces of nature
in the United States and internationally. His work consists of large scale,
at play; a sublime beauty far removed from the everyday. Drifting into frame,
highly nuanced color photographs of the stark natural beauty and inherent
the dreamlike palette of these landscapes offers a window into an ephemeral
impermanence of landscapes.
world where scale and perspective become impalpable. These landscapes
Smith has been photographing natural landscapes for more than 15 years.
inspired the creation of large-scale prints that echo the vastness of the spaces
Shooting precisely and selectively with incredible detail, Smith often revisits
they depict, inviting the viewer in to contemplate their own relationship
the same site on several occasions until he feels the essential character of the
to the natural world.
landscape has been revealed to him. This conscious and gradual process of documentation results in meditations on land, water and air.
Smith has been the recipient of a number of awards for his work, including The Hearst Biennial Award, The Magenta Foundation Award, the PDN
His investigations of landscape have led him to the remote locations
Annual Awards and the Photography Book Now Blurb Award. Additionally,
of northern Iceland and southern Patagonia, where he photographed streams,
his work has appeared in numerous magazines including The Smithsonian,
glaciers, glacial rivers and waterfalls. These landscapes, devoid of human
The Royal Photographic Society, PDN and Art and Architecture.
STREAMS
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ICE FORMS
S TR EAM # 5 0
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S TR EAM # 2
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S TR EAM # 43
30” x 72” (30”H x 24”W x3) ED. OF 8
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40” x 97” (40”H x 32”W x3) ED. OF 5
50” x 120” (50”H x 40”W x3) ED. OF 3
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70” x 168” (70”H x 56”W x3) ED. OF 2
U NTI TLED # 4
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U N TI TLED # 1 7
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U NTI TLED # 38
30” x 48” (30”H x 24”W x2) ED. OF 8 50” x 80” (50”H x 40”W x2) ED. OF 3
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40” x 64” (40”H x 32”W x2) ED. OF 5 70” x 112” (70”H x 56”W x2) ED. OF 2
U N TI TLED # 32
30” x 48” (30”H x 24”W x2) ED. OF 8 50” x 80” (50”H x 40”W x2) ED. OF 3
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GLACIERS
GLAC I ER # 2 1
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GLAC I ER # 4
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40” x 64” (40”H x 32”W x2) ED. OF 5 70” x 1 12” (70”H x 56”W x2) ED. OF 2
G LAC I E R # 9
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GLAC I ER # 19
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G LAC I E R # 6
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FA L L S
FALL # 5
30” x 48” (30”H x 24”W x2) ED. OF 8 50” x 80” (50”H x 40”W x2) ED. OF 3
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FALL # 23
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FALL # 2 2
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FALL # 9
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FALL # 3 6
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70” x 126” ED. OF 3
FALL # 41
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FALL # 8
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RIVERS
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R I VER # 3
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R I VER # 2
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R I VER # 4
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R I VER # 21
30” x 48” (30”H x 24”W x2) ED. OF 8 50” x 80” (50”H x 40”W x2) ED. OF 3
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HORIZONS
H OR I Z ON # 2 5
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59” x 74” ED. OF 2
H OR I Z ON # 3 9
32” x 40” ED. OF 8
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H OR I Z ON # 4 8
32” x 40” ED. OF 8
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H OR I Z ON # 1 0
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H OR I Z ON # 3 0
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H OR I Z ON # 27
30” x 48” (30”H x 24”W x2) ED. OF 8 50” x 80” (50”H x 40”W x2) ED. OF 3
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40” x 64” (40”H x 32”W x2) ED. OF 5 70” x 112” (70”H x 56”W x2) ED. OF 2
HO RIZO N # 6 6
39” x 74” ED. OF 4
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50” x 95” ED. OF 2
FRAMING NOTES
All works are mounted on 3mm Dibond with Luster film lamination and a floating frame in black or maple mega white with a ½” face x 2” deep and ¼” gap.
C U R R I C U L U M V I TA E S O LO EXH I B I TI O N S
2017
A IPAD, NY
2022
Waterways II, Diehl Gallery, Jackson WY
2015
A rt 021, Shanghai
Waterways, Lanoue Gallery, Boston, MA
2014
S cope, Miami
2021
Featured Artist, Lanoue Gallery, Boston, MA
2013
A IPAD, NY
2020
Waterways, Diehl Gallery, Jackson WY
2018
Oceans, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY
2012
A IPAD, NY
2017
Waterforms, The Curator Gallery, NY
2011
G overnors Island Art Fair, NY
2016
Streams/Glaciers, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY
2010
G overnors Island Art Fair, NY
2015
Streams, Nunc Contemporary, Antwerp
2006
P hotoPlus Expo
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Pan, Amsterdam
Fotofever Fair, Brussels
Art Market, Texas
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Art Market, Hamptons
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AIPAD, NY
Photokina, Cologne
Streams, East Central College Gallery, Union, MO 2014
Streams, Curated by 3walls,The Curator Gallery, NY
H ONORS
2013
Landscapes: Parallel and Visual Journals, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY
2020
H erhúsid, Art Residency, Iceland
2016
H erhúsid, Art Residency, Iceland
2011
Untold Stories, Hearst Gallery at Hearst Tower, NY
2014
H erhúsid, Art Residency, Iceland
2010
Untold Stories, Rick Wester Fine Art, NY
2013
H erhúsid, Art Residency, Iceland
2005
The Bridge Project, The International Center for Tolerance Education, NY
2011
H earst 8x10 Photography Biennial, Untold Stories
2010
T he Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward competition, Winner, Untold Stories
G R O U P E X H I B I TI O N S 2022
XX, Twenty Year Exhibition, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY. 2021
Annual Fête, Diehl Gallery, Jackson WY
2020
Bright and Beautiful, Diehl Gallery, Jackson WY Warm Waters, Anne Neilson Fine Art, Charlotte, NC
2019
Selected Works, Ille Art, Amagansett, NY
2018
Streams/Falls Putnam & Mason, Greenwich CT Tirreno Elizabeth Dow Gallery, Amagansett, NY
2016
PDN annual Awards, Winner, Personal category, Untold Stories
Winter White, Diehl Gallery, Jackson WY
Waterways IV, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT Artists of the Year, 2015 Greatest Hits, The Curator Gallery, NY
2009
S ony Photography Awards, Shortlisted, East/West Santa Fe Prize for Photography, Nominated, The Bridge Project
2008
P hotography Book Now, Blurb, Category Winner, The Bridge Project The Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward competition, Winner, Night and The City
2006
P DN 30, Winner, The Bridge Project
2004
T he Design Trust for Public Space, Photo Urbanism Fellowship, The Bridge Project
2015
And Everything In Between, DZINE Gallery, SF
SEL ECT ED PU BLI C ATI ONS/ C LI E NTS
2014
Artists of the Year, 2014 Greatest Hits, The Curator Gallery, NY
Aperture, Hewlett Packard, Random House, Nonesuch Records, The Metropolitan
Observing Connections CVA Gallery, Brookdale College, NJ
Magazine, View Magazine, PDN, Art and Architecture, The Design Trust for Public Space,
Away We Go, Emerging Brooklyn Artists, The Curator Gallery, NY 2012
Annual Holiday Salon Exhibition, Ille Art, Amagansett, NY 3walls, Three Person Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Hail traveller!, Rick Wester Fine Art, NY
2008
The Altered Landscape, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, Smithsonian Magazine, Metropolis Taschen, Royal Photographic Society Magazine, View Magazine, Popular Photography COL L ECT IONS Museum of the City of New York The Design Trust for Public Space EDUCAT ION Diploma Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism, The International Center of Photography, New York (2000–2001)
FA I R S 2019
Photo, LA
2018
ICFF, NYC
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Art on Paper, NYC
B.A. (Honors) Fine Art, The University for Creative Arts in Canterbury U.K (1997–2000)
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