About the artist:

Was born in Sacramento, CA, and earned a BA from California State University at Sacramento, studied with Wayne Thiebaud at University of California at Davis and MFA from University of Idaho. He moved his studio to NY in 2005. His work is about a painting dialogue created with Andy Warhol’s work. It proposes a dialog between visual artists in a tradition of van Gogh's letters to Emile Bernard; Charlie Russell's letters to Cutapuis, (the Blackfoot sculptor,) and C.G. Jung's, Libor Novis. He was selected for the Cooper-Union’s,”Emerging Artists of 2007,” exhibition in New York City. He had his first NY solo exhibition at Judaica Museum’s Gilbert Pavillion Gallery in Mar 09. He lives and paints in New York City, Lake Tahoe, CA and Windley Key, FL. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: AARP Retrospective Andy Dialogs, Pivot Gallery. New York City, NY. Febuary 2019. El Bote, Pivot Gallery. New York City, NY, 2018 Playful Scapes: Beth Barry & Mel Smothers, Carter Burden Gallery. New York City, NY, 2018 ISLAND ABSTRACTION, 2Jx Gallery. New York City, NY, 2017 MEL SMOTHERS, ISLANDS AND DIALOGS, Pivot Gallery. New York City, NY, 2017 ISLANDS, Dacia Gallery. New York City, NY, 2015 “POSTCARDS FROM THE PLAYA,” Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV. 2015 UNCUBED, Creativity Fair. Santa Monica, San Francisco, California, Wakefiled Magazine, Indiewalls. 2014 Indiewalls, New York City.2012- 2013, Sabrina Wirth, curator, Iber Gonzalez Vidals, curator. Pence Gallery, Davis CA. 2012, Natalie Nelson, curator. Judaica Museum, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Gilbert Pavilion Gallery, New York City, 2009, Emily O’Leary, Curator. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Opening Group Show, Cat Swan Gallery, Sonoma CA, 2019. Printmakers, Halden Gallery, South Lake Tahoe, CA. 2019 “Colorations,” bG Gallery. Santa Monica, CA, 2017 “Shamus, Stern and Smothers,” Pivot Gallery. New York City, NY, 2016 Peter Marcelle Contemporary Projects, New York City, 2008-present. “Small Works,” Lemonade Stand Gallery, Key West, FL. 2016 “Landscapes,” Mosser Hotel, San Francisco, CA. 2016 “Summer Group Show,” Francis Naumann Gallery, New York City, NY. 2015 “This Land is Your Land,” Morris Graves Museum, Eureka,CA. 2014 ‘Bushwick Painters,” Studio 26, New York City, summer 2013 Studio 26 New York City, Art Fairs 2013-16; Miami Beach; NYC; Los Angeles; Brussels; Monaco; Singapore; Berlin; Hamptons. Art Takes Times Square, Times Square, New York, 2012 Unearthing the Narrative in Art Today, The 23rd Atmosphere Gallery, Chicago, 2011 Open Portfolio New York, 2010,’ Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2010. Beyond Warhol in the 21st Century: A Post-Pop Romantic Retrofit,’ Chicago and New York, 2010 Peter Marcelle Contemporary Projects, New York City, 2008-present. 30th Annual Emerging Artists 2007 Invitational,” Cooper Union, New York City, 2007. Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York City, NY. 2002-2005.