September 2025
Josh Smith is always at work. This is largely because Smith, who deals in abstract paintings, drawings, and prints, is concerned with using the painting process as a tertiary logic, an extension of his own understanding of the world. When Josh Smith’s capacity for reason stops? This is when his work ends. For now, Smith keeps working, in his studio and home in and across New York City.
Smith’s forthcoming exhibition, Destiny, on view this fall at David Zwirner Gallery in Los Angeles, presents a sly characterization of that teleological end: in it, the Grim Reaper pedals his bike throughout New York City, giving shape to The End, putting it at odds with the laborious process of understanding The End.