GALLERY MISSION STATEMENT: Presenting Positive and Creative Art that Gives Back to the Community and Noble Organizations. Please support your local artists. Call or email me if you are interested in buying a painting or if you would like to set up an appointment to see the gallery with my work and other local artists’ work. The gallery is open the first and third Friday of every month 6pm to 11pm for the Phoenix Art Walk. The local art scene is getting better and better. I try to keep Studeo Tad a gallery full of local artists. The gallery is actually a small 1,000 sq. ft. house north of Grand Ave. Rooms can be used for installations or to show case an artist. There are 10 artists showing now. Including rock sculptures, blown glass, photography and different styles of paintings. Local artists please email me if you are interested in showing your work. 915 West Fillmore (north of Grand on Tenth Ave) A little about me and my art: The intent of my work and exhibition is to bring art as a positive influence to the people. I believe successful art is like building a bridge between the artist and his or her audience. The artist needs to build his half with creativity, knowledge and craftsmanship. By drawing in his audience they are left to build the other half of the bridge by connecting meaning using their own life experiences. This is how art reaches its full potential: a 50/50 endeavor between artist and audience. I hope to inspire people to claim the artist inside themselves and restore the bridge between art and people. I enjoy exploring different styles and mediums. The style and medium I am best know for is the textured color fields. These are my first loves. Artists have typically strolled down the aisles of art supply shops or the arts and crafts chain stores to stock up on materials and supplies for their creative endeavors. Their raw materials may consist of tubes of paint, sets of brushes, and a handful of unadulterated canvases. Tad Smith, on the other hand, loads large carts with construction materials from the nearest Home Depot for his unique brand of artwork. He buys drywall and foam insulation boards for his substrate cores. Then, like a kid in a candy store, he seeks out every kind of goop, putty, and construction gunk for his experimental texturing processes. “For some pieces I use a wood putty for the texturing,” he says, “and then I paint them and occasionally add a two-part epoxy for the final gloss finish.” Miscellaneous debris like you might find at a construction site makes up the hidden treasures that get incorporated into Tad’s crafted canvases. Each of his projects is an original painting and deep within there resides a one-of-a-kind sculptured canvas.