Andrew Smaldone was born in 1978. He completed an MA
from Central Saint Martins College of Art London in
2005, and a BA with Honors from The George Washington
University Washington D.C. in 2001, where he was
awarded the four-year Presidential Arts Scholarship.
In 2005, Mr. Smaldone co-founded ArtSEEN Journal and
was the magazine’s Senior Editor until 2008, whereupon
he began writing for various international contemporary
art publications such as: London based Art Review and
New York centered INPUT Journal.
He has shown his art widely in the US, Europe, and the
UK. In his paintings and drawings architectural
elements (interiors of rooms or depictions of buildings
in space) are used as a framework in which to explore
the passing of time, while tonal variation strongly
evokes processes of remembering. The importance of
living with and creating space, the physical and the
creative, the abstract and the representational, is
fundamental as it allows the artist the freedom to work
in the space in between, where a single-minded approach
to the creative process becomes superceded by the need
to consider existence from a variety of perspectives.
Mr. Smaldone is a team member of the art platform
number_5 (an architecture and art company based in
Zurich) and has taught Painting, Drawing, and
Contemporary Art History at Santa Reparata
International School of Art since
2007.
Courses taught at SRISA: