TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
A highly publicized artist Adam Parker Smith, who was the mind behind the newly installed Minerva statue at Texas State University, recently gave thesis guidance to university art students and gave a lecture to shine a bit of light on his process. The day of speaking and art critiques was coordinated by Artist Liaison Bekah Porter who is also a voting member of the TXST University System Public Art Committee that chose his work to decorate the campus. Smith’s process is unusual as he is the person with the ideas and with the painstaking duty of bringing those to life. His pieces involve teams of professionals that he procures to birth his dreams into reality, which in the case of Minerva involved recruiting his brother to learn an algorithm that could squish the classic statue Minerva into a cube and a team of Italian sculptors to make the computer rendering a reality.
The exhibit that launched his career involved a series of stolen artwork from various New York artists that he took while doing studio visits over the course of approximately five months. Right before the show, Smith emailed the victims to let them know what he had done.
