Visual Art – Los Angeles
Carmen Smith is a visual artist currently living in San Diego, CA. Carmen received training at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied design and painting and earned a BFA in 2005. Her current work focuses on creating a new form of abstraction through the idea of counterpoint, a term in music that relates to the art of combining melodies, but can also be described as any element that is juxtaposed and contrasted with another. Carmen uses the idea of counterpoint to relate and combine patterns, designs and drawings, often found in the urban environment. Through layering and juxtaposing patterns and designs, she is able to create complex and intriguing abstractions with much interpretation remaining open to the viewer. The viewer in turn may find meaning that speaks to something within. Carmen is influenced by Kandinsky, Diebenkorn, Thiebaud, Basquiat, and Rosenquist.