[{"id":47,"project_name":"Temet Nosce","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/temetNosce.jpg","project_description":"Temet Nosce - Know Thyself - an ancient warrior's theme that resounded throughout my military career and I was reflecting on this and the sum of my experiences in relation to that. This painting is, in many ways, an extension of me. It relates to my body, in that its size corresponds to my reach, my height, my center of gravity. I wanted to have my gestural movements captured on the canvas that were tied to my body as I reflected on my experiences. The paintings in this series are abstract and emotionally expressive. Simply put, the painting succeeds if I or the viewer experience emotional movement from the painting. That transference of energy is healing (and I guess that makes me a sort of healer, a self-healer, or perhaps a shaman). I often paint on a large scale (5' x 7' or larger). This scale matches that of my reach. And the actions captured in the brushstrokes and colors matches the motion of my body as I experience the release of painting.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2017","medium":"Oil on canvas","dimensions":"90\" x 65\"","frame":"Unframed","notes":"Related projects: Bali Hai, Exit, Auxliium Cito, Defensible, Aftermath"},{"id":48,"project_name":"Binary Protoytpe I","category":"Printmaking","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/binaryPrototype1.png","project_description":"This work explores the transformation of an image through a system of code-based rules and technological processes in a virtual space, with a re-emergence back in to the physical world. I use my original generative computer code written in Processing (Java) to create the digital images. From there, I use additional software and a Computer Numeric Control (CNC) router machine to transform the images into wood-cut plates. These plates are then used on a traditional printing press to create embossings on art paper. In this way the original spark in my mind filters from through a system of technology to emerge into the physical world. In this piece, I made every effort to remove myself from any aesthetic intervention in the piece. From CNC gaffes, splintering of wood, and “perceived ugliness” on my part, I tried to capture every happy accident that occurred in the process of making these pieces. They were originally going to be ink prints, but my accidental discovery of the embossing effect of the printing press opened an entire new direction of exploration for the series. The generative software I wrote allows for no human intervention into the aesthetic process. The algorithm alone determines which shapes go in any given cell of the matrix. Other pieces in the series (Gatherings, Influenced System) allow varying levels of intervention into the aesthetic decisions. This is a means of exploring human-computer interaction, and the exchange of aesthetic control between the artist and the system they have written. The shapes in this series evoke urban terrain or geography. These pieces were also featured in the Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Art Show in Fort Worth, Texas, 2017-2018.","price":"$1000.00 + tax and shipping","date_created":"2016","medium":"Embossed generative print with minimal intervention","dimensions":"28″ x 24″","frame":"Professionally framed - blonde wood","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-gail/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Binary Protoype II, Gatherings, Influenced Systems"},{"id":49,"project_name":"Binary Protoytpe II","category":"Printmaking","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/binaryprotoytype2.jpg","project_description":"This work explores the transformation of an image through a system of code-based rules and technological processes in a virtual space, with a re-emergence back in to the physical world. I use my original generative computer code written in Processing (Java) to create the digital images. From there, I use additional software and a Computer Numeric Control (CNC) router machine to transform the images into wood-cut plates. These plates are then used on a traditional printing press to create embossings on art paper. In this way the original spark in my mind filters from through a system of technology to emerge into the physical world. In this piece, I made every effort to remove myself from any aesthetic intervention in the piece. From CNC gaffes, splintering of wood, and “perceived ugliness” on my part, I tried to capture every happy accident that occurred in the process of making these pieces. They were originally going to be ink prints, but my accidental discovery of the embossing effect of the printing press opened an entire new direction of exploration for the series. The generative software I wrote allows for no human intervention into the aesthetic process. The algorithm alone determines which shapes go in any given cell of the matrix. Other pieces in the series (Gatherings, Influenced System) allow varying levels of intervention into the aesthetic decisions. This is a means of exploring human-computer interaction, and the exchange of aesthetic control between the artist and the system they have written. The shapes in this series evoke urban terrain or geography. These pieces were also featured in the Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Art Show in Fort Worth, Texas, 2017-2018.","price":"$1000.00 + tax and shipping","date_created":"2016","medium":"Embossed generative print with minimal intervention","dimensions":"28″ x 24″","frame":"Professional framed - blonde wood","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-gail/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Binary Protoype I, Gatherings, Influenced Systems"},{"id":50,"project_name":"Stack Interaction - Alpha Study","category":"Generative","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/stackInteraction.jpg","project_description":"Taking inspiration from a paper collage made by a fellow artist, Lauren Price, the original algorithm that I wrote which generate this piece is designed to explore color theory and transparency. Several of the pieces were successful enough to print and frame. The series is a dive into color theory, transparency, geometry, and algorithmic variation. One of the pieces that I made were selected for the Mercedes Benz Financial Services Art Show in Fort Worth Texas in 2016-2017: (Stack Interaction - Alpha Study).","price":"$1000.00 + tax and shipping","date_created":"2016","medium":"Professional Ink-jet print of code-generated image","dimensions":"33″ x 33″","frame":"Professionally framed - white","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-g/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Zugspitze, First Light Interaction"},{"id":51,"project_name":"First Light Interaction","category":"Generative","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/firstLightInteraction.jpg","project_description":"Taking inspiration from a paper collage made by a fellow artist, Riley Frost, the original algorithm that I wrote which generates these pieces is designed to fill the surface with a triangular grid, using a six-color palette, and ensuring that no two triangles with adjacent faces are the same color. This allowed me to quickly experiment with different palettes, some of which I printed and framed. The series is a dive into color theory, geometry, and algorithmic variation. Several of the pieces that I made were selected for the Mercedes Benz Financial Services Art Show in Fort Worth Texas in 2016-2017","price":"$1000.00 + tax and shipping","date_created":"2016","medium":"Professional Ink-jet print of generated image","dimensions":"33″ x 33″","frame":"Professionally framed - white","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-g-3/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Stack Interaction, Zugspitze"},{"id":52,"project_name":"Zugspitze","category":"Generative","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/zugspitze.png","project_description":"Taking inspiration from a paper collage made by a fellow artist, Riley Frost, the original algorithm that I wrote which generates these pieces is designed to fill the surface with a triangular grid, using a six-color palette, and ensuring that no two triangles with adjacent faces are the same color. This allowed me to quickly experiment with different palettes, some of which I printed and framed. The series is a dive into color theory, geometry, and algorithmic variation. Several of the pieces that I made were selected for the Mercedes Benz Financial Services Art Show in Fort Worth Texas in 2016-2017","price":"$1000.00 + tax and shipping","date_created":"2016","medium":"Professional Ink-jet print of generated image","dimensions":"33″ x 33″","frame":"Professionally framed - white","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-g-4/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Stack Interaction, First Light Interaction"},{"id":53,"project_name":"Bali Hai","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/baliHai.jpg","project_description":"Like other paintings in this series, Bali Hai is a recount of a significant event in my military career. I count on the emotional energy I put into the painting to translate back to the viewer, perhaps in a way that transforms it - this is the power of large abstract paintings. The dimensions of the painting reflect my size and reach. The marks and colors reflect the visceral nature of the recounted event, and movement and rhythm of the painting reflect my movements in reaction to recounting those moments while painting it. It truly is a relic of the performance of my emotional catharsis that occurred while creating it. For me, it was a landmark painting that is all at once, personal, authentic, and healing for me. The series, and especially this painting, has helped me to define my painting style and define my “artistic DNA”. Bali Hai was part of the Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Art Show, Forth Worth, Texas 2017-2018. The painting has since sold and I am very grateful to the collector.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2017","medium":"Oil on canvas","dimensions":"90\" x 65\"","frame":"Unframed","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-gail-4/*L*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Exit, Auxliium Cito, Defensible, Aftermath, Temet Nosce"},{"id":54,"project_name":"Aftermath","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/aftermath.png","project_description":"Aftermath is a part of a series of works that I constructed while attending an eight-week summer session at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. It is the final piece of a visual soldier's story about the loss of valued comrades, the impact of that loss on a small team, and the often invisible or hidden personal pain for many that follows thereafter.","price":"Contact me for price please.","date_created":"2019","medium":"Oil on canvas","dimensions":"85\" x 58\"","frame":"Unframed","notes":"Related projects: Bali Hai, Exit, Auxliium Cito, Defensible, Temet Nosce"},{"id":55,"project_name":"Inversion","category":"Fabrication","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/inversion.jpg","project_description":"This piece is made from a found object. Here I have taking something useful and rendered it not-so-useful by just rearranging its elements, and not removing or adding anything to it. It is simply there to observe, question, and discuss. Perhaps it is a metaphor.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2016","medium":"Found object, deconstructed","dimensions":"12″ x 12″ x 18″","frame":" ","notes":"Note: Not a comfortable place to sit"},{"id":56,"project_name":"Toy for a Child Soldier","category":"Fabrication","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/toyForChildSoldier.jpg","project_description":"I was inspired to make this piece when I heard about Watchlist, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that advocates for children in war-torn regions of the world. In such places, children are often traumatized, abused, harmed, and even made to fight against their will (please visit the website for more info). This piece represents the irretrievable lost innocence and lost childhoods that are suffered as a result.","price":"Contact me for price please.","date_created":"2015","medium":"MDF, Paint, PVC","dimensions":"Appx 12\" round","frame":" ","notes":"L*https://www.watchlist.org*Watchlist"},{"id":57,"project_name":"First Light Search","category":"Generative","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/firstLight.jpg","project_description":"A paper collage \"painting\" of a machine I am intimately familiar with.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2016","medium":"Paper Collage","dimensions":"40\" x 26\"","frame":"Professionally framed - white","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-g-2/*Mercedes Benz Showcard*Related projects: Spirit of the Lakota, First Light Interaction, Manatee"},{"id":58,"project_name":"Exit","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/exit.jpg","project_description":"Like other paintings in this series, Exit is a recount of a significant event in my military career. I count on the emotional energy I put into the painting to translate back to the viewer, perhaps in a way that transforms it - this is the power of large abstract paintings. While it holds personal meaning for me, more significant is the enery thatt was transferred into tthe painting during its creation. That energy is realeased to the viewer and the abstract marks take on a new meaning that is personal to the viewer. And this trnsfer of emotional energy is what connects me to tthe collector. For me, it was a landmark painting that is all at once, personal, authentic, and healing for me. The series, and especially this painting, has helped me to define my painting style and define my “artistic DNA”. The painting has since sold and I am very grateful to the collector.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2017","medium":"Oil on canvas","dimensions":"90\" x 65\"","frame":"Unframed","notes":"Related projects: Bali Hai, Temet Nosce, Auxliium Cito, Defensible, Aftermath"},{"id":59,"project_name":"Defensible","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/defensible.jpg","project_description":"Like other paintings in this series, Defensible is a recount of a significant period in my life, related to my post-military transition following a military career. I count on the emotional energy I put into the painting to translate back to the viewer, perhaps in a way that transforms it - this is the power of large abstract paintings. That transference of energy is healing (and I guess that makes me a sort of healer, a self-healer, or perhaps a shaman). I often paint on a large scale (5' x 7' or larger). Like others in the series, it relates to my body, in that its size corresponds to my reach, my height, my center of gravity. I wanted to have my gestural movements captured on the canvas that were tied to my body as I reflected on my experiences. The paintings in this series are abstract and emotionally expressive. This scale matches that of my reach. And the actions captured in the brushstrokes and colors matches the motion of my body as I experience the release of painting.","price":"Contact me for price please.","date_created":"2017","medium":"Oil on canvas","dimensions":"90\" x 65\"","frame":"Unframed","notes":"Related projects: Bali Hai, Exit, Auxliium Cito, Defensible, Aftermath"},{"id":60,"project_name":"Auxilium Cito","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/auxCito.jpg","project_description":"Auxilium Cito - Fast Help - This painting is a reflection on a time for me in the military career that made a significant impact on me. The paintings in this series are abstract and emotionally expressive. Simply put, the painting succeeds if I or the viewer experience emotional movement from the painting. That transference of energy is healing (and I guess that makes me a sort of healer, a self-healer, or perhaps a shaman). And this has become a part of my \"Artistiv DNA\". I often paint on a large scale (5' x 7' or larger). This scale matches that of my reach. And the actions captured in the brushstrokes and colors matches the motion of my body as I experience the release of painting.","price":"Contact me for price please.","date_created":"2017","medium":"Oil on canvas","dimensions":"Unframed","frame":"90\" x 65\"","notes":"Related projects: Bali Hai, Exit, Temet Nosce, Defensible, Aftermath"},{"id":61,"project_name":"Parametric System","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/paraSys.jpg","project_description":"I depict an immersive world that features shapes generated with original computer code in sharp geometry and bold colors, transporting the viewer to an imaginary space. The connections in our world between mathematics, computers and nature are stronger than they appear on the surface.","price":"Contact me for price please.","date_created":"2018","medium":"Acrylic on canvas","dimensions":"84\" x 60\"","frame":"Unframed","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-gail-6/*Mercedes Benz Show Card"},{"id":62,"project_name":"Athenian","category":"Illustration","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/athenian.jpg","project_description":"In Greek mythology, a small owl usually represents or is accompanying Athena. I painted this mural at the Dallas Farmers Market as a tribute. At the time of creation, Taylor Street was lined with a construction wall where many murals were painted, and I was fortunate to have the opportunity to add mine. Since the construction wall was removed, the murals have been relocated in the surrounding parking garages and tunnels. Athenian is now in the nearby parking garage, lowest level, on the southeast side, tucked among some bamboo.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2018","medium":"Acrylic on Pressbord Panel","dimensions":"12 feet x 8 feet","frame":"Check it out at the Dallas Farmers Market","notes":"Related projects: Tiger Face, Study for Athenian, First Light Search, Spirit of the Lakota"},{"id":63,"project_name":"Tiger Face","category":"Illustration","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/tigerFace.jpg","project_description":"Illustration provides an outlet for me to make art without attaching weighty concepts, political messages, or heady hidden meanings. There is a lot of crossover between painting, drawing, and illustration. And some of the greatest artists did all of those things, with the lines between them often blurred. Often I paint themes with animals or nature when making illustrations. I feel my illustrations are successful when people close to the work are moved by it, no matter the subject.","price":"$800.00 + tax and shipping","date_created":"2018","medium":"Acrylic on Wood Panel","dimensions":"36\" x 36\"","frame":"Unframed","notes":"Related projects: Athenian, Study for Athenian, First Light Search, Spirit of the Lakota"},{"id":64,"project_name":"Spirit of the Lakota","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/spiritOfTheLakota.jpg","project_description":"This is one of my earliest successful projects. I was fortunate that one of my Professors informed me about an art contest being held by Airbus Helicopter - the manufacturer of the helicopter that I flew for 12 years in the US Coast Guard. The contest was for the creation of an original illustration to honor the Lakota people as Airbus named the US Army’s newest helicopter after them (in keeping with Army tradition of honoring Native American warriors by naming their helicopters after them - Iroquois, Kiowa, Chinook, Blackhawk, and now Lakota). Because of my early affiliation with the Army, my many years of flying Airbus equipment, my decision to go to art school on my GI Bill, it was a seemed to be a pre-destined culmination of all of my experiences up to that time. And with my newfound honor of winning the contest, I was very humbly afforded a great opportunity - an invitation to the Badlands in South Dakota to the Pine Ridge Reservation to meet the family of Eagle Elk, the Lakota chief whose image I used as inspiration for the piece.\n\nThe image I painted is based on a historical photograph of Eagle Elk from the Library of Congress. Eagle Elk's face becomes one with the mountain and his head-dress becomes one with the clouds. These are both symbolic of strength, a spiritual oneness with nature, and of the eternal spirit of all great and honorable warriors.\n\nA Lakota helicopter skims the treetops in the nap of the earth - another symbol of honorable strength and the ancient warrior spirit in the modern age.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2016","medium":"Gouache on Art Paper","dimensions":"24\" x 36\"","frame":"Professionally framed - white","notes":"L*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YVFuJNUnbg*Airbus Press Release*https://verticalmag.com/press-releases/painting-honors-iconic-lakota-warrior-eagle-elk/*Vertical Magazine*https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2016/12/16/dallas-artist-wins-a-contest-for-painting-a-portrait-of-eagle-elk-a-symbol-for-the-military-s-new-lakota-helicopter/*Dallas Morning News*https://www.smudailycampus.com/news/meadows-student-wins-art-contest-honoring-lakota-people*Southern Methodist University Daily Campus*Related projects: Athenian, Study for Athenian, First Light Search, Spirit of the Lakota"},{"id":65,"project_name":"Fragile Geometry 3-5-6","category":"Generative","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/fgp3p5p6.jpg","project_description":"The forms in this piece, from my Fragile Geomtery series, are 3-D shapes generated with computer code. The generative algorithm can produce a nearly infinite quantity of these images, each unique, by changing three parameters in a series of equations. The resulting calculations determine each form in 3-D virtual space, which is then rendered to a vector image. The natural forms are not human creations but, instead, reveal the inherent natural beauty of numbers. The artist’s “hand and eye” intervene aesthetically only by way of parameter selection and color choices.","price":"$1000.00 + tax and shipping","date_created":"2019","medium":"Professional Ink-jet print of generated image","dimensions":"33″ x 33″","frame":"Professionally framed - white","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-gail-8/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Fragile Geometry 2-6-5, Fragile Geometry 10-16-16"},{"id":66,"project_name":"Fragile Geometry 2-6-5","category":"Generative","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/fgp2p6p5.jpg","project_description":"The forms in this piece, from my Fragile Geomtery series, are 3-D shapes generated with computer code. The generative algorithm can produce a nearly infinite quantity of these images, each unique, by changing three parameters in a series of equations. The resulting calculations determine each form in 3-D virtual space, which is then rendered to a vector image. The natural forms are not human creations but, instead, reveal the inherent natural beauty of numbers. The artist’s “hand and eye” intervene aesthetically only by way of parameter selection and color choices.","price":"$1000.00 + tax and shipping","date_created":"2017","medium":"Professional Ink-jet print of generated image","dimensions":"33″ x 33″","frame":"Professionally framed - white","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-gail-7/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Fragile Geometry 3-5-6, Fragile Geometry 10-16-16"},{"id":67,"project_name":"Fragile Geometry 10-16-16","category":"Generative","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/fgp10p16p16.jpg","project_description":"The forms in this piece, from my Fragile Geomtery series, are 3-D shapes generated with computer code. The generative algorithm can produce a nearly infinite quantity of these images, each unique, by changing three parameters in a series of equations. The resulting calculations determine each form in 3-D virtual space, which is then rendered to a vector image. The natural forms are not human creations but, instead, reveal the inherent natural beauty of numbers. The artist’s “hand and eye” intervene aesthetically only by way of parameter selection and color choices.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2017","medium":"Professional Ink-jet print of generated image","dimensions":"33″ x 33″","frame":"Professionally framed - white","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-gail-5/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Fragile Geometry 3-5-6, Fragile Geometry 2-6-5"},{"id":68,"project_name":"Earth and Sky","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/earthSky.jpg","project_description":"Terrestrrial and Otherwordly","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2017","medium":"Oil on canvas","dimensions":"38\" x 38\"","frame":"Framed - Oak","notes":" "},{"id":69,"project_name":"Manatee","category":"Illustration","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/manatee.png","project_description":"Illustration provides an outlet for me to make art without attaching weighty concepts, political messages, or heady hidden meanings. There is a lot of crossover between painting, drawing, and illustration. And some of the greatest artists did all of those things, with the lines between them often blurred. Often I paint themes with animals or nature when making illustrations. I feel my illustrations are successful when people close to the work are moved by it, no matter the subject.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2021","medium":"Acrylic on Wood Board","dimensions":"3 each 48\" x 60\"","frame":"Unframed","notes":"Related projects: Athenian, Study for Athenian, Tiger Face"},{"id":70,"project_name":"Study of Black","category":"Generative","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/studyOfBlack.jpg","project_description":"Taking inspiration from a paper collage made by a fellow artist, Riley Frost, the original algorithm that I wrote which generates these pieces is designed to fill the surface with a triangular grid, using a six-color palette, and ensuring that no two triangles with adjacent faces are the same color. This allowed me to quickly experiment with different palettes, some of which I printed and framed. The series is a dive into color theory, geometry, and algorithmic variation. Several of the pieces that I made were selected for the Mercedes Benz Financial Services Art Show in Fort Worth Texas in 2016-2017","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2016","medium":"Professional Ink-jet print of generated image","dimensions":"33″ x 33″","frame":"Professionally framed - white","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-g-5/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Stack Interaction, Zugspitze, First Light Interaction, Oceanic"},{"id":71,"project_name":"Oceanic","category":"Generative","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/oceanic.jpg","project_description":"Taking inspiration from a paper collage made by a fellow artist, Riley Frost, the original algorithm that I wrote which generates these pieces is designed to fill the surface with a triangular grid, using a six-color palette, and ensuring that no two triangles with adjacent faces are the same color. This allowed me to quickly experiment with different palettes, some of which I printed and framed. The series is a dive into color theory, geometry, and algorithmic variation. Several of the pieces that I made were selected for the Mercedes Benz Financial Services Art Show in Fort Worth Texas in 2016-2017","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2016","medium":"Professional Ink-jet print of generated image","dimensions":"33″ x 33″","frame":"Professionally framed - white","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-g-6/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Stack Interaction, Zugspitze, First Light Interaction, Study of Black"},{"id":72,"project_name":"Ebb and Flow","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/ebbAndFlow.png","project_description":"The age-old struggle between man and nature continues fervently. My work underscores the struggle between these powerful entities as we grapple with technology to “master” our world, sometimes to our own demise, much as I struggle with technology to make these works. This line of thought beckons us to reconcile what ties and divides us with the animals of the world. It begs us to weigh our responsibility to conserve. Lines and colors clash and converge, abstracting nature into geometry or geometry into nature. We must find a peace between these conflicting demands to survive our own selves.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2015","medium":"Acrylic on CNC-carved wood panel","dimensions":"46\" x 22\"","frame":"Oak","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-g-7/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Deconstruction of a Mountain Spring"},{"id":73,"project_name":"Deconstruction of a Mountain Spring","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/deconstruction.jpg","project_description":"The age-old struggle between man and nature continues fervently. My work underscores the struggle between these powerful entities as we grapple with technology to “master” our world, sometimes to our own demise, much as I struggle with technology to make these works. This line of thought beckons us to reconcile what ties and divides us with the animals of the world. It begs us to weigh our responsibility to conserve. Lines and colors clash and converge, abstracting nature into geometry or geometry into nature. We must find a peace between these conflicting demands to survive our own selves.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2015","medium":"Oil on CNC wood-cut panel","dimensions":"22\" x 22\"","frame":"Oak","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-g-8/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Ebb and Flow"},{"id":74,"project_name":"Clarion Call","category":"Painting","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/clarionCall.jpg","project_description":"Music is transformational. At times a certain song can transport you immediately to a specific place and time, often inviting personal reflection. Other songs might be less specific, but they fill you with a feeling that moves profoundly and effortlessly to your inner soul—something worth holding on to and repeating. In this piece I have captured one such feeling of my own.","price":"Not for sale","date_created":"2017","medium":"Oil on canvas","dimensions":"50\" x 38\"","frame":"Oak","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-g-10/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Bali Hai, Exit, Auxliium Cito, Defensible, Aftermath"},{"id":75,"project_name":"Influenced System","category":"Printmaking","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/influencedSystem.jpg","project_description":"This work explores the transformation of an image through a system of code-based rules and technological processes in a virtual space with a reemergence back into the physical world. I use my original computer code, other software and a computer numerical control machine to transform the image into woodcut plates. A traditional etching press is then used to return the image from the virtual system back into the physical world as an embossed print. Varying levels of human intervention into the aesthetic decisions explore the exchange between the artist and the system.","price":"$1500.00 + tax and shipping","date_created":"2017","medium":"Embossed generative print with human intervention","dimensions":"3 each at 24\" x 14\"","frame":"Professionally framed - blonde","notes":"L*https://art.mbfs.com/smith-david-gail-3/*Mercedes Benz Show Card*Related projects: Binary Prototype I + II, Gatherings, Coronas"},{"id":76,"project_name":"Gatherings","category":"Printmaking","img_url":"https://nft-mint-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/gatherings.jpg","project_description":"This work explores the transformation of an image through a system of code-based rules and technological processes in a virtual space with a reemergence back into the physical world. I use my original computer code, other software and a computer numerical control machine to transform the image into woodcut plates. A traditional etching press is then used to return the image from the virtual system back into the physical world as an embossed print. 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Artist:
David Gail Smith
TRADITIONAL MEETS FUTURISTIC
I am a visual artist currently based in Dallas, Texas.
I began writing code as a teen on a TI-99/4a and later an Apple //c until leaving home for college in
the
late 80s. Fast-forward three decades. After retiring in 2014 from 21-year military aviation career, I
now
endeavor to rediscover the “energy of wonder” I possessed as a young man before the military.
Post-military, I completed 2 degrees: a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Creative Computation. Originally
from
Erie, Pennsylvania, I moved across the U.S. several times while growing up and served nearly half of
my
military career overseas. My world travels, exposure to many cultures, and life experiences have given
me
a unique perspective.
My work experiments across media, involving emotional introspection of my experiences and shared
influences with others in our world. I am on an eternal quest for themes that bind people, share
cultures,
and celebrate humanity in pursuit of what is universal and simply put - beautiful and interesting. I
seek
to defy stereotypes, transcend divisive and useless social and political assumptions, and connect with
anyone in search of common ground. With one foot in fine arts and another in computers, I strive to
combine art with technology, the traditional with the cutting-edge, and the ancient with the
futuristic,
in search of an art that is the hybrid of historical tradition and future technology.