Samantha Keely Smith's paintings are radiant with pulsating fiery potency. Yet they present a disquieting chilly vision of a world that is no longer welcoming for humans. The New York-based artist's magnificent semi-abstract landscapes keep to a strictly limited palette of predominantly complementary colors. Its compelling contrasts nonetheless create a sense of total harmony which captures our imagination by creating the arresting aura of a world full and fulfilled without the presence of any extraneous life-forms.

Samantha Keely Smith is a painter working and living in New York.

Her work is an exploration of the tension between light and dark, order and chaos, heaven and earth.

"Her paintings convey the permanent evolution of natural space into a dream space, more beautiful than its counterpart... Smith's artwork represents a bridge of reconciliation between the outer world, the sum of our sensory experiences, and the inner world, that of our mind and emotions."

“Tender, Human, and chillingly romantic, Smith’s work exhibits a wonderful and consistent sense of troubled beauty and disrupted hopes… Smith creates a resonant, fluid and universal art that is at once both strikingly new, yet strangely familiar.”