Chronic

Original PMS Oil Painting On Canvas - 16" x 20"

This is a completely unique and original abstract oil painting on canvas. This painting epitomizes a technique and aesthetic I have been working to perfect over the years. The colors are vibrant and alive and the texture is highly tactile and almost edible. The paint jumps off of the canvas at you and there is depth and structure to the piece. The colors invite you in and provoke you to touch them and the texture. This painting symbolizes the struggle I have been going through battling chronic and neurological lyme disease. Colors, texture and lines are violently stabbing through shapes, like spirochetes embedded into tissues. Visually, it almost looks assembled and the streaking colors wrap around the sides of the canvas to give it a unique three dimensional quality. It is truly an original oil painting like no other.

Note: This painting is painted on canvas and does not come framed. However, the sides of the piece are painted black, while the streaking colors on the surface wrap around the sides and therefore framing is unnecessary and (with the texture on the edges of the piece) not recommended.

This painting is signed on the front and includes my Certificate of Authenticity.

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Artist Preston M. Smith (PMS) found himself cross-eyed and with no depth perception as a child. This was the "lens" through which he developed his unique visual perspective of the world, which he now shares as a painter. Before focusing completely on his visual artwork, Preston spent many years developing and expanding his creative mindset by acting professionally, touring and lead singing for a punk/ska band, and writing two novels as well as a collection of poetry and original paintings. All of this experience fed into his ability to access his creative voice and communicate his own experience. Over the years, Preston’s artwork has transitioned from moody pop surrealist paintings into vibrantly colorful, tactile, highly textured and almost "edible" abstract works. His mantra for his abstract work is "color, texture, beauty and decay", and his work and life have been an expression of moving from darkness into light. Preston’s work has been showcased alongside David Lynch and at the Inaugural Purple Ball for President Obama’s Inauguration in 2009, where he was commissioned to paint 12 portraits of the President. Recently, Preston is coming off of a successful Solo Exhibition at ShockBoxx Gallery in Hermosa Beach California and his first two showings at the LA Art Show in Downtown L.A.. His work has also been selected by a panel of curators as a winner in the 1st 2018 ArtSlant Artprize Showcase and has been on display at the world famous La Luz De Jesus Gallery, and in numerous exhibitions throughout Los Angeles and across the country. Preston's work has also been the subject of a documentary short entitled "Negativity To Creativity" and is in more than 550 private collections in 27 countries, as well as in the collections of celebrities such as Ed Harris, Ashley Judd, Josh Lucas, Patricia Arquette and more.