Owen Smith's clients include Sports Illustrated, Time, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker (for which he has created fourteen cover illustrations). He has recently completed work on a new children's book for Simon and Schuster. Smith's influences come from the WPA artists of the 1930s, Diego Rivera, the sensationalist imagery of pulp magazines, and old lurid dime-store paperback illustrations. His paintings have been featured in exhibitions in New York, Rome, and Milan as well as solo shows in Los Angeles. In 1998 a set of mosaic murals designed by Smith was permanently installed in a New York Subway Station at 36th Street Brooklyn. Currently he is designing permanent art for a historic San Francisco Hospital including murals, mosaic, and relief sculpture.

Owen went to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California. After graduation he and his wife, illustrator Elizabeth Uyehara, lived and worked in New York before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to raise their two young sons. Owen Smith currently teaches illustration at California College of the Arts.

"Pieta"

48x60"
Oil on board
18,000.00
SOLD

"Between Rounds"

24x30"
Oil on board
4,500.00
SOLD

"Dame"

16x20"
Oil on board
3,500.00
SOLD

"Black Dahlia"
(LA Times)

12x14"
Oil on board
2,500.00
SOLD

"Cornered"

24x30"
Oil on board
6,000.00
SOLD

"Action"
(Los Angeles Magazine)

12x15"
Oil on board
2,000.00
SOLD