Cole Smith

Aspen based artist Cole Smith (b.1997) is a multimedia artist, whose artworks reflect what it is like to grow up and live in Colorado. His work often embodies the ideology of the outlaw western gunslinger, past and present. The early stages of his life he grew up painting illustrations on snowboards and honed the idea of creating something with what you had. His childhood treehouse held itself as the place for the American Dream and freedom of building things. Often visiting ghost towns as a kid, and road trips across the American West - he was heavily inspired by whatever he came across on the road and currently still uses the same process which is a cultivation of his asphalt cowboy upbringing and the wear and tear culture of growing up in Colorado.