Lucien Smith is a painter and sculptor experimenting with the results of amalgamating various art genres, concepts, and techniques in his work. The incorporation of ready-made materials and use of collage references Dadaist doctrine; the impasto layering of oils on canvas, with the inclusion of molding paste and detritus, flirts with Matter Painting, as his non-representational renderings nod to the Art Informel or Tachisme movements of the ’40s and ’50s. With a concentration on process, Smith investigates the outcome of allowing his ideas to develop slowly, cultivating the dialogue created between concept and physicality/thought and object.