"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

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.