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1. The Book of Neglects, 1996, offset artist’s book, 3” x 4-1/2”
2. Context of a Red Dress, 2005, offset artist's book, 5” x 7”
3. Hours, 2003, offset artist’s book, 4” x 6”

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1. Barrier 8, 2007, graphite on paper, 22” x 30”
2. Barrier 10, 2007, graphite on paper, 22” x 30”
3. Barrier 11, 2007, graphite on paper, 22” x 30”
4. Context of a Red Dress, Fetching etc., 2006, 4 offset lithographs,
     19” x 22”
5. Context of a Red Dress, Figures, 2003, triptych monotypes,
     22” x 30” each
6. Model child, 1985, offset lithograph, 22” x 30” each
7. Vespers for 9/11, 2002, graphite on paper, 19” x 23”
8. Vespers 2, 2002, graphite on paper, 19” x 26”
9. Illuminate Letter L, 2007, inkjet tempera and gold leaf, 16” x 20”
10. Illuminate Letter A, 2007, inkjet, tempera and gold leaf, 16” x 20”
11. The Letter M, 2005, wood cut, hand colored with gold leaf, 9” x 12”
12. The Letter U, 2006, wood cut with gold leaf, 11” x 14

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Contact Information
e-mail: psmith@uarts.edu
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement
My images often deal with contemporary social issues. The processes of Mark making and printmaking are integral to the representation of the concept. I am committed to the craftsmanship and I take great pleasure in the execution. The work continues to be unified by references to my earliest visual vocabulary, icons and books that I experienced growing up Irish Catholic. Barriers, was motivated by the U.S. action to build fences to keep out illegal immigrants. Equally important are the marks and the meditative process of building a drawing. Hours references medieval books of hours in its format. It is a response to the events of 9/11; a secular object for meditation on those lost. The Red Dress plays with word and image. The meaning of the dress is challenged with a change of context. Illuminated addresses literacy. The images are grotesques and marginalia from illuminated manuscripts. They are each assigned a letter of our alphabet.

Education
1980
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
MA Ed

1979-1980
Yoshida Hanga Academy, Tokyo Japan
Japanese Woodblock Printing

1971
Immaculata College, Immaculata, PA
BA

Professional Experience
present 
Associate Professor, Printmaking/ Book Arts, The University of the Arts, College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Collections
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt
Free Library of Philadelphia, Prints and Pictures Collection
Kent Institute of Art, Kent England
Special Collections, Swarthmore College Library
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
The University of Washington, Seattle
The University of California, Santa Barbara, Special Collections Library
Virginia Commonwealth University
Van Pelt –Dietrich Library, The University of Pennsylvania

Publications
Artists books available for purchase at
Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC

Context of a Red Dress, 2005, P. S. Press / Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, Philadelphia, PA, edition of 60

The Book of Neglects, 1996, Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, Philadelphia, PA, edition of 350

Hours, 2003, edition of 150

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2008
Illuminate, Galleria Sotoportego, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica,
Venice, Italy

2007
Red Dress and other Images, The Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, PA 

Group

2008
Production not Reproduction: The Influence of OFFset Printing on Artist's Books, The Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX

Outrageous Pages: Ingenious Artists’ Books, State University of New York at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY

2007
Production not Reproduction, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

Action/Interaction: Book/Art, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Re-Bound, Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

2006-2008
Philagrafika Exhibition at William Penn Foundation, William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Interdisciplinary Library Exhibit, Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

What a Relief, Spector Gallery, Philadelphia PA

Bound and Unbound, Free Library of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, PA
Invitational

Production not Reproduction, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Art Full Text, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

2004
Artist’s Book Biennale, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt
Invitational

2003 - 2005
In Flight: Artist’s Books  The Guild of Bookworkers Exhibition, Traveling Exhibition, Denver Public Library, Denver, CO; Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts
Chicago, IL; and Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

2003
9th Wexford Artists’ Book Exhibition, Wexford Art Centre, Wexford, Ireland

2002
Works on Paper, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA