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From the catalog for
Next Wave Fresno Artists To Watch In The 90's
Exhibit, Fresno Art Museum June-August. 1991

The wheel of E. Z. Smith's thought turns in an outrageous groove. A native of Fresno, Smith has been absorbed in photography since he first took a course ("because the class looked so easy") in McLane High School. In an insightful article by Polly Victor, she notes, "his works . . . are spoofs on death and its terrors, on the bizarre in violence and the ordinariness of the grotesque."
During Smith's exhibition and artist residency at the Fresno Art Museum in 1990, viewers were both amused and somewhat abashed with works to frustrate our "better" instincts-slightly repellent kitsch and scenes of grisly events that become preposterous tableaux-an exploding cigar takes off a man's head; Lincoln gets shot with a flag popping gun; the guillotine delivers a head into a meringue pie. As Victor notes, "Smith's work tempts us to indulge this side of ourselves, and then ridicules the urge."
E. Z. Smith reminds us that he has been basically self taught-the self has been an unusually creative, intelligent and gleefully impudent teacher! Smith has had numerous solo and group exhibits for the past twelve years at the Spectrum Gallery (which he was instrumental in founding), the Tree Webb Gallery, the Fig Tree Gallery, the Fresno Art Museum, and a multi-media piece at the Traction Gallery in Los Angeles which was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times as being "anarchically amusing!"

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