
Lura Schwarz Smith
Lura Schwarz Smith has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art, emphasis in painting and drawing, from San Francisco State University. She produced textile art and mixed media work from 1975, originally showing in California galleries throughout the 70s and 80s. In the 90s she taught, showed art quilts, and received awards at national and international levels. One of her art quilts was named one of the “100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century.”
Over the past ten years, Smith has turned her focus to oil painting, exploring both realistic and more abstract and fractured approaches, drawn to the directness and immediacy of paint on canvas. Exploring the imagination and inner life through figurative art are primary themes in her art.
To see more of her work, visit www.lura-art.com