Above: Escape by Ed Smith, oil on canvas, 70 x 70

Professor Ed Smith‘s fifth solo exhibition at the Sǿren Christensen Gallery  features works from his Manifest Destiny series. A preview of the show is available at sorengallery.com.

Ed Smith is an artist and a professor of painting and drawing at the LSU School of Art. Smith’s large-scale oil paintings use depictions of birds and wildlife to address his political concerns and to address the inherent difficulties that occur at the boundaries of the wild and developed world.