Andrew Smaldone

My aim as an educator is to teach students how to technically conceive of an artwork to best understand conceptually what they want to create and why they are creating it.

Andrew Smaldone (born in 1978 in Denver, Colorado USA) completed an MA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 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. Smaldone is an artist, lecturer, art critic, and educator who has been teaching painting, drawing, and contemporary art theory at SRISA since 2007, where he was appointed Academic Dean in 2012.

In 2005, he co-founded ArtSEEN Journal and was the magazine’s Senior Editor until 2008, after which he began writing for various international contemporary art publications including London based Art Review. In 2011 he co-founded the contemporary art magazine Fisk Frisk where he is the Editor-at-Large. Smaldone has shown his art widely in the US, Europe, and the UK and won the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2015. 

Smaldone’s new works explore both surface and space, a process he initiated in 2005 during his studies at Central St. Martins College of Art in London. Working within this fluid space brings awareness into a long-term and ongoing discourse concerning the “non-space.” This terminology of state shows his attempt to describe in words an awareness of something present yet not tangible or usually seen, thus it is not an “absence” of space, but a fullness of its opposite aspect. As Smaldone describes, it is like penetrating through the wall to observe something from the inside of itself.