{"id":897,"date":"2012-06-19T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2012-06-20T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T18:36:08","slug":"justin-smith-artwork-to-show-at-preview-on-aug-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/justin-smith-artwork-to-show-at-preview-on-aug-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Smith artwork to show at preview on Aug. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Robinson Smith, a mixed-media artist, whose \u201cGuitar Hero\u201d paintings are currently being shown at the Second Story Gallery of the New Orleans Healing Center, is preparing for a new show that will focus entirely on his unusual artistic work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_898\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Smith_guitar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-898\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-898 lazyload\" title=\"Guitar Hero\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Smith_guitar-147x300.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Robinson Smith\" width=\"147\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Smith_guitar-147x300.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Smith_guitar-504x1024.jpg 504w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 147px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 147\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-898\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-898\" title=\"Guitar Hero\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Smith_guitar-147x300.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Robinson Smith\" width=\"147\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Smith_guitar-147x300.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Smith_guitar-504x1024.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Robinson Smith&#39;s art at the Second Floor Gallery of the New Orleans Healing Center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A self-described tribal and abstract artist, Smith has announced a preview party for his next solo show to be held on August 11 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at the Second Story Gallery, 2372 St. Claude Avenue. The show will continue until September 1.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m going to have imaginary tribal deities of Meso-America plus some architectural paintings of New Orleans like St. Louis Cathedral and St. Rita\u2019s Church,\u201d Smith explained. He also plans to display several specially painted cypress windows he has prepared for the show.Born in Baton Rouge, Smith has been a resident of New Orleans for most of his life. He comes from a long line of New Orleans artists on both sides of his family. His grandfather was the late Joseph Smith, who taught art at Fortier High School for 40 years. His father Sidney is a renowned rock photographer. For more information or to see examples of his art, go to his website <a title=\"Justin Robinson Smith Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justinsarts.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>(Note: Smith is a cousin of CCJN Editor Alan Smason)<\/h6>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Justin%20Smith%20artwork%20to%20show%20at%20preview%20on%20Aug.%2011\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8790,149,8788,151,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}