TrépanierBaer is pleased to announce Michael Smith will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, titled Michael Smith: Sea of Change. 

Montreal-based painter Michael Smith is known for his fluid and impasto surfaces as well as his ability to strike a poetic balance between representation and abstraction. Inspired by art history as well as historic and current events, Smith pulls from various sources to create his energetic landscapes and seascapes. J.M.W. Turner’s The Fountain of Indolence, George Chambers’s depictions of 19th-century Arctic expeditions, and Jean Paul Riopelle’s palette knife abstractions continually shape Smith’s understanding of landscape painting, while historically focused projects push the boundaries of his subject matter.

Exhibition on from May 25-November 7.