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This large-scale Josh Smith scarf features the artist's iconic Palm Tree imagery on a psychedelic, multi-colored backdrop. Known for his prolific output, Smith’s background in printmaking guides his practice, as he utilizes both handmade and manufactured approaches to reproduce a wide range of subject matter. This cotton, modal, and silk blend scarf has a very soft, matte surface.
Unframed
Edition of 100
This sold-out artist scarf is available from the Massif Central archive for a limited time only.

① Artwork:

Palm Tree

This large-scale Josh Smith scarf features the artist's iconic Palm Tree imagery on a psychedelic, multi-colored backdrop. Known for his prolific output, Smith’s background in printmaking guides his practice, as he utilizes both handmade and manufactured approaches to reproduce a wide range of subject matter. This cotton, modal, and silk blend scarf has a very soft, matte surface, and its large swathes of black and vibrant color allow for muted or exuberant stylistic expressions, depending on how it’s folded and worn. The size (51 x 51 inches) is excellent for wearing on the body as a dress, skirt, top, or scarf, and it can also hang either framed or unframed as artwork in your home.

Josh Smith is a New York- and Tennessee-based artist working with painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, and artist’s books. He first emerged in the early 2000s for a series of paintings that depicted his own name as the primary motif, allowing him to experiment freely with abstraction, figuration, and other expressive possibilities. His work has since evolved to varied imagery and includes series’ featuring grim reapers, leaves, fish, streetscapes, and palm trees.

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51 inches
51 inches

③ Artist:

Josh Smith

Josh Smith is a New York- and Tennessee-based artist working with painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, and artist’s books. He first emerged in the early 2000s for a series of paintings that depicted his own name as the primary motif, allowing him to experiment freely with abstraction, figuration, and other expressive possibilities. His work has since evolved to varied imagery and includes series’ featuring grim reapers, leaves, fish, streetscapes, and palm trees.

Josh Smith was born in 1976 in Okinawa, Japan. His father was in the US Army, and his family moved frequently. They eventually settled in East Tennessee, where the artist mostly grew up. His work has been presented in numerous solo exhibitions at museums and arts institutions in the United States and abroad, including at the Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2016); Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome (2015); Zabludowicz Collection, London (2013); The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut (2011); Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2009); De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands (2009–2010); Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (2008); and SculptureCenter, New York (2004).

The artist has been represented by David Zwirner since 2017, and his first exhibition, Emo Jungle, took place at the gallery’s 519, 525, and 533 West 19th Street locations in New York in 2019. David Zwirner Online presented High As Fuck, the artist’s second solo show with the gallery, in 2020. Also in 2020, a solo exhibition of new paintings was presented concurrently at the gallery’s locations in London and 69th Street in New York. In September 2023, a solo presentation of the artist's work went on view at the gallery’s Paris location.

Smith’s work is held in numerous international public collections, including The Broad, Los Angeles; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Smith has lived and worked in New York since 1998.

Josh Smith:
Palm Tree, 2020
Silk, cotton, modal blend
51.0 × 51.0 inches /