Brighton Smith

• IMAGES
• CV
• ABOUT

Brighton Smith is a contemporary artist raised in Orange County, whose recent exhibition of works, Skylark, simultaneously embraces the California-based pictorial traditions of landscape painting and the Light and Space movement.

Consistent with his 2025 solo exhibition, High Speed Horizon, Smith situates himself within a longstanding tradition of painters rendering atmospheric phenomena with idealized gravitas, ranging from the historically idealized blue expanses of the Italian Renaissance to 17th-century Dutch Baroque cloudscapes and the emotionally charged skies of 18th-century Romanticism.

Smith's work has been exhibited extensively across the United States and is held in the collection of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, as well as in numerous private collections internationally.

Skylark marks Brighton Smith's tenth second solo exhibition at Skidmore Contemporary Art.

VIEW SELECTIONS BY BRIGHTON SMITH BELOW
*Images with an asterisk are sold