Artist’s Bio.

Jed Smalley’s early years were spent demonstrating a total disregard for the utility of formal education. That said, in the spirit of self contradiction, he pursued a BFA at Parson’s School of Design, an MFA from Yale University and an MD degree from State University of New York.

Sculpture and painting seemed to have awakened an inquisitive nature more willing to pursue formal education. While at Parson’s artists like Ron Bladen and Clement Meadmore were influences. Later at Yale, David Von Schlegel and Richard Serra were personal heroes.

Jed left Yale to enter the art scene in New York as a large scale sculptor but wound up losing confidence in the meaning and importance of art. He returned to academia to earn an MD degree from State University of New York Medical School. In the years that followed, while practicing medicine, he remained devoted to making art, mostly paintings while keeping removed from showing his work.

For the last fourteen years his work has been focused on large paintings and Animalier Sculpture. His paintings begin with lancape, allowing the paint to help direct the final imagery. Many of the paintings incorporate a dribble technique poured from varying heights above wood or canvas laid on the floor. Multiple layers accumulate to develop imagery relating to the Fibonacci Sequence and Divine Proportion.

Jed has retired from Intensive Care and Anesthesia now for fourteen years and has shown his work with The Maryland Federation of Art, Yoiks Gallery, Catalyst Contemporary Gallery in Maryland and Zenith Gallery in Washington D. C.