Sage S. Smith was born and raised on the South side of Chicago. She is currently based in Baltimore, where she studies painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Smith’s paintings are a series of bright colors and patterns. She uses the languages of minimalism, maximalism, control, and chaos to create childlike and storybook worlds.
Humor and playfulness are recurring motifs, along with darker undertones of loneliness and being lost, all speaking on the darker side of self. Smith’s work remains ambiguous uses techniques often associated with children’s media embedding hidden themes in childlike wonder.
