{"title":"Fine Arts","description":"\u003cp\u003eStacy Stewart Smith (he, him) is a fine art painter. Some of his work is featured here and available to collect.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"temptation-2008-oil-on-canvas-by-stacy-stewart-smith","title":"Temptation, 2009 Oil on Canvas by Stacy Stewart Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTemptation\u003c\/em\u003e is the painting that does not look away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe final work of the \u003cem\u003eResurrection\u003c\/em\u003e series, this monumental oil on canvas — 54\" × 80\" — closes the cycle not with transcendence but with confrontation. Where earlier works in the series reached toward the divine, \u003cem\u003eTemptation\u003c\/em\u003e turns the gaze inward, toward the most human of failures: the capacity to hate, and the silence that allows it to grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the left of the composition, a colossal ear rendered in daubs of Cadmium red and Rose Madder dominates the canvas. It is not a portrait. It is an address. It is you — the viewer — being asked to listen, and in listening, to reckon. Across the canvas, a darkened town sits beneath a cooling sunset, rendered in deep Prussian blues, its stillness the stillness of willful blindness. And suspended above it, almost imperceptible in its smallness: a tiny noose. The disproportion is the point. Hatred begins small. It is always small, until it is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmith’s \u003cem\u003eAbstractrealism\u003c\/em\u003e here operates at its most prophetic. The painting was completed in 2009, but its vision of American racial hatred — its capacity to smolder quietly, to be fed by power, to become colossal — reads as a work that knew what was coming. It is a painting about end times, yes, but more precisely about the moment before them: the private moment when we are alone with the conception of our own sin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor those whom this painting will offend, it is a call to ask oneself why.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOil on Canvas · 54\" × 80\" · 2009\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne-of-a-kind original. 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It is a consecration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePainted in 2002 and exhibited at the Stacy Stewart Smith Gallery in Brooklyn as part of the landmark \u003cem\u003eRevelations in Red\u003c\/em\u003e series, this intimate yet commanding work — 21.5\" × 27\" on canvas, housed in a bold ornate frame that gives it the gravity of antiquity — marks the moment Smith answered a divine call to ministry. It is one of only two works from that exhibition still available for collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe subject is the artist himself, in his late thirties, long hair in twists, draped in a hooded garment that carries the weight of centuries. The hood reads simultaneously as the chain mail of a medieval knight and the urban hoodie of the inner city — protective, purposeful, worn by those who move through the world knowing it is not always safe. Smith renders it in an oil-and-wax medium, built up with a palette knife over months, then finished with pure daubs of chroma primaries and secondaries that make the fabric appear to glow from within. Glazes of Rose Madder over Cadmium Red deepen the luminosity, giving the figure an outer radiance that is less painterly effect than spiritual fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the surface, collage fragments — images of family, personal events, printed words — are scattered at deliberate random, inviting the viewer to complete meanings the artist has left open. Embedded among them: a gold-plated crucifix and rhinestone tie pins, found objects that transform the canvas into something closer to a reliquary than a painting. These are not decorations. They are offerings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Anointing\u003c\/em\u003e is where \u003cem\u003eAbstractrealism\u003c\/em\u003e was born — where Smith first understood that paintings could exist on top of paintings, within paintings, and that the space between the real and the imagined was not a gap to be closed but a threshold to be inhabited.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOil and Mixed Media \/ Found Objects on Canvas · 21.5\" × 27\" (framed: 28.5\" × 34.5\") · 2002\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne-of-a-kind original. 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One reaches down. One reaches up. They are deliberately mismatched in scale, and that imbalance is the painting’s entire argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe background dissolves into the blurred geometry of the Eiffel Tower, glimpsed from a moving elevator — iron and light rendered through daubs of paint and wisp washes, hovering between impressionism and pure abstraction. The figurative arms emerge from this atmosphere like a thought becoming certain: near-realistic, yet drawn rather than merely painted, as if the act of reaching itself is still being decided.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is something of Michelangelo’s \u003cem\u003eCreation\u003c\/em\u003e in the composition — that charged space between fingertips — but Smith’s intention is his own. This is not the moment of divine touch. This is the moment before it. The moment when the distance seems absolute, when logic offers nothing, and the only available movement is trust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCan the small hand lift a large one? Are today’s problems bigger than the power of the Almighty?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFaith\u003c\/em\u003e is the first completed work of the \u003cem\u003eResurrection\u003c\/em\u003e series, painted across the summer of 2006 and finished in November of that year. It is the painting that made everything that followed possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOil on Canvas · 50\" × 34\" · 2006\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne-of-a-kind original. 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The composition draws from the soaring geometry of the Eiffel Tower's interior staircases — iron lattice dissolving into light — rendered through his signature \u003cem\u003eAbstractrealism\u003c\/em\u003e, where photographic memory and painterly intuition negotiate the same surface. What emerges is neither document nor dream, but something rarer: a visual experience that feels both witnessed and imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScattered across the canvas, stenciled squares of pigment — deliberate, luminous — interrupt the image like a signal breaking through static. They are pixels losing resolution, yes, but they are also something older: the rungs of Jacob's Ladder, angels ascending and descending between Heaven and Earth. Smith does not choose between the digital and the divine. 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In the spare, colorless language of graphite and gesso, Smith mapped the composition’s essential tensions: the colossal and the minute, the seen and the deliberately ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe work traces its origins to June 20, 2005 — the day Smith traveled to Paris specifically to photograph the Eiffel Tower for his next series. The city was not easy. The language barrier was real, the logistics formidable, the intimidation genuine. And yet he went, camera in hand, and brought back the images that would fuel years of studio work. 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The technique is chine-collé: thin metallic and decorative papers are bonded to a grainy cotton backing before the impression is taken, so that the final print carries within it a subtle topography, a surface that rewards close looking. The sepia palette gives the work the feeling of something retrieved from time — warm, amber, enduring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the printed surface, Smith has added his own hand in gold metallic polymer, drawing directly into the image. The grove of the title is not merely depicted; it is inhabited by the artist’s mark, the gold threading through the composition like light through leaves. It is a print that is also a drawing, a mechanical process made singular by touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach impression is signed by the artist. Five are available — artist proofs, meaning they were pulled outside the numbered edition, traditionally reserved for the artist’s own collection. 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A graphite and gesso drawing on canvas depicts the interior of an empty New York City MTA subway car — that most democratic of spaces, where strangers from every nation sit inches apart, briefly sharing the same air, the same destination, the same silence. In Smith’s \u003cem\u003eAbstractrealist\u003c\/em\u003e vision, the emptiness is not absence. It is invitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMounted over the canvas, a Plexiglas case carries its own language. Scratchitti — the etched marks of the street — cast shifting shadows across the surface as light moves through the work, revealing calls for world peace inscribed in known and unknown tongues. The phrase \u003cem\u003eworld peace\u003c\/em\u003e is etched directly into the Plexiglas, present always, but visible only when the light is right. 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