Alex Smith aka ALEXOTERIC

Alex Smith is an artist, writer, curator, “musician”/noise-maker, living in the cosmically kinetic city of Philadelphia. His work reflects that dichotomy– stark, beautiful, wrought with Afrotopian tension, avant garde fashion/assemblage, and dynamic visual presentation. His sci-fi inspired worlds collide with queer/radical reimaginings of the fantastic. From collage work, to zines, to bands and solo music performances, to promoting other bands and performers via curation and cultural critique and arts reporting, Smith transcends the concept of “renaissance man” and works from the Afrofturist vision– all things, all the time, each aspect of his work informing the other. Smith won the 2020 Pew Fellowship of the Arts, presenting work such as his short story collection Arkdust (Rosarium Publishing), his experimental art-punk bands (Rainbow Crimes, Solarized, Spectral Forces, Glitch Proverbs), the cyberpunk superhero indie comic book series Black Vans, among others. He invites you to join him in the chromatic exploration of the unknown, his art a visual portal to that liminal space.