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Writing Inventory

Journals - ca. 5,700 drawings, paintings, etc.

Freshman Year Journal (no longer exists) - ca. 220 drawings

112 sheets--both sides used. 8½" x 11"

8 or 9/70 - 9/71. Destroyed 1/76. Some pages remain (drawing folder 1)

1971-72 Newsprint Sketchbook - 100 drawings

100 sheets--one side used. 12" x 18"

Gray Journals - ca. 3,000 drawings

ca. 122 sheets each--both sides used. Each is 7¼" x 9½".

1) 10/71 - 1/73?

Pages are numbered 1-244.

2) 1/73? - late 4/73 or early 5/73.

3) 5/2/73 - 10/15/73

4) 10/73 - 4 or 5/74

5) 4 or 5/74 - 3/75?

6) 3/75? - 6/76 (last drawing) and 9/19/76 (coloring and borders)

Work through 9/19/76 according to sheet in folder #3. The entirety of journal 6 was open to coloring and border creation to 9/76.

7) 9/76? - ca. 8/10/77

Early glued in sketches began 6/76 or 7/76.

8) 7/9?/77 - 10/77?

Also functions as a book-length comic strip.

9) 10/77? - 10/20/78

Declared this to be last such journal.

10) 10 or 11/78? - 11/11/79

Stopped doing this kind of art journal for 6-7 months.

11) 6/6/80 - 1/23?/81

Collages at beginning do some catching up from late 1979.

12) 1/24/81 - 1/23/82

Miscellaneous Sketchbooks - ca. 800 drawings

1) Australian sketchbook, 7/72

20 sheets--one side used. 10" x 11"

2) Green sketchbook, 10/78? - 5/80

100 sheets--one side used. 8½" x 11"

3) White sketchbook, 3/6/82 - 11/20/82

30 sheets--one side used. 8½" x 11"

4) Silver sketchbook, 4/82 - 11/27/83

100 sheets--one side used. 9" x 12"

5) Small brown sketchbook, 5/27/82 - 9/10/82

100 sheets--both sides used. 5½" x 8½". Much collage.

6) Brown sketchbook, 11/29/83 - 5/7/85

100 sheets--one side used. 9" x 12"

7) Library School sketchbook, 5/85 - 7/10/85

122 sheets--both sides used. 7¼" x 9½". Created 5/85 to 7/85; mostly doodles from library school classes.

8) Forgotten sketchbook, 12/4/91 - 11/25/99

100 sheets--usually one side used. 19 drawings from 12/91 - 10/3/92. Rediscovered 1/99 and continued from 1/2/99-11/25/99. 5½" x 8½"

9) 7/4/00 -11/25/02

100 sheets--usually one side used. 5½" x 8½"

Faces Journals - 226 drawings

1) Faces # 1, 6/22/88 - 12/9/88

100 sheets and end page. One side used. 4" x 5"

2) Faces # 2, 2/18/89 - 4/8/89

24 sheets. One side used. 4" x 5"

3) Faces # 3, 4/22/89 - 1/1/90

100 sheets and end page. One side used. 4" x 5"

New Series - ca. 1,360 drawings through #14

1) Black Journal # 1, 7/20/85 - 9/1/86

112 sheets--usually just one side used. 8½" x 11"

2) Black Journal # 2, 9/2/86 - 10/13/87

112 sheets--usually just one side used. 8½" x 11"

3) Black Journal # 3, 10/19/87 - 2/6/89

112 sheets--usually just one side used. 8½" x 11"

4) Black Journal # 4, 2/9/89 - 10/9/90

100? sheets--usually just one side used. 8½" x 11"

5) Black Journal # 5, 10/14/90 - 6/23/92

112 sheets--usually just one side used. 8½" x 11"

6) Black Journal # 6, 6/27/92 - 2/4/94

112 sheets--usually just one side used. 8½" x 11"

7) Black Journal # 7, 2/12/94 - 2/3/96

112 sheets--usually just one side used. 8½" x 11"

8) Black Journal # 8, 2/10/96 - 5/31/98

80 sheets--usually just one side used. 11" x 14".

9) Journal # 9, 6/12/98 - 12/30/99

70 sheets--usually just one side used, spiral-bound, 11" x 14"

10) Journal #10, 11/11/98 - 5/10/00

70 sheets--usually just one side used, spiral-bound, 8½" x 11"

11) Journal #11, 5/13/00 - 6/24/02

70 sheets--usually just one side used, spiral-bound, 11" x 14"

12) Journal #12, 6/29/02 - 12-21-03

70 sheets, 137 drawings--usually just one side used, spiral-bound, 11" x 14"

13) Journal #13, 12/31/03 - 4/28/05

60 sheets--usually just one side used, spiral-bound, 9" x 12"

14) Journal #14, 5/10/05 - 9/11/06

60 sheets--usually just one side used, spiral-bound, 9" x 12"

15) Journal #15, 9/17/06 - 12/7/08

60 sheets--usually just one side used, spiral-bound, 9" x 12"

15) Journal #16, 12/21/08 - 

60 sheets--usually just one side used, spiral-bound, 9" x 12"

Idea Journals - ca. 340 drawings through #14

1) Idea Journal #1, 6/10/00 - 4/5/09

60 sheets, lined lower half, spiral bound, 8 1/2" x 11", both sides used, incorporates possibilities from 1974 on art journals, rough count of 340 drawings

2) Idea Journal #2, 6/6/09 - 

100 sheets, spiral bound, 9" x 12"

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Drawing Files (drawings and paintings not more than 9" x 12"- ca. 1,200 drawings through #11

Folder 1, 9/25/70 - 8/72

Ca. 150 drawings. Includes fragments of Journal #1

Folder 2, 9/72 - 4/73

Ca. 120 drawings

Folder 3, Ca. 8/74 - ca. 1/78

Ca. 40 drawings

Folder 4, Early 1978 - early 1979

Ca. 50 drawings

Folder 5, Early 1979 - 1/26/80

Ca. 170 drawings

Folder 6, 1/28/80 - Spring 1983

Ca. 100 drawings

Folder 7, 5/26/87 - 2/23/89

Ca. 100 drawings

Folder 8, 2/23/89 - 2/8/90

Ca. 100 drawings

Folder 9, 2/17/90 - 12/21/92

Ca. 150 drawings

Folder 10, 1/26/93 - 11/27/99

Ca. 150 drawings

Folder 11 (culled from misc. files, 1974-1999)

Ca. 30 drawings

Folder 12, 4/2/00 - 12/26/06

Ca. 150 drawings

Folder 13, 1/9/07 -

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Larger Drawings, 1968-
ca. 200 drawings

Paintings on paper, collages, drawings on paper, oversized pastels.

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Comic Books/Graphic Novels - ca. 700 pages

The Story of Lester Quartz's Fantastic Journey, Volume 1, 1974 - 1976. Ca. 222 pages. 8½ x 11"
Acid Loses Nothing!, 1975 - 1977. Ca. 222 pages. 8½" x 11"
The Adventures of Tree Leopard, 1984 - 1985. Ca. 222 pages. 8½" x 11"
Millicent Faustus (unfinished), 1983. 22 pages. 11" x 14"

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Oil and Acrylic Paintings, 1969-

Listed in paintings database. 296 through 5/10. All have photographs.  Also slide portfolio of major paintings, 6 copies each.  See Photo Portfolios below.

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Sculptures

Listed in Miscellaneous database. Includes sculptural ceramics. Photos of most.

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Linoleum Block Cuts

Listed in Miscellaneous database.  All have photos.

1. Cat and Tree.  5/1/95. 5" x 4"
2. Thunderhead Cat.  5/17/95. 4" x 5"
3. Shaman Woman.  5/31/97. 5" x 4"
4. Abstract.  5/26/98. 6" x 4"
5. Face.  9/20/98. 5" x 4"
6. Cloud Blocks. 1/25/03. 5" x 4"
7. Experimental Goddess. 12/25/05.  7" x 5"

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Pastels and Miscellaneous Works

On canvas-covered boards and other media, including selected items from bound journals.  Listed in Miscellaneous database. All have photos.

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Ceramics (aside from sculpture pieces)

1. 1967 - 1970. Various cups and pots. Various photos exist.
2. 1987. Cactus holder, cups, etc. Various photos exist.

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Photo Portfolios

Various photo portfolios of paintings and drawings exist as follows:

1. Main portfolio: Slides. 6 copies each, usually 3 darker and 3 lighter versions. Most of the paintings on sortmind.com have such slides, as do several pastels and drawings.
2. Photo print files of all:

a. Oil and acrylic paintings

b. Miscellaneous pastels, drawings, other

c. Sculptures

3. Additional photo print copies of best works.  Ca. 50-60 as a quick portable format.

4. Miscellaneous art-related prints

a. Any copies of no. 2 above showing the full, finished work

b. Close ups

c. Sequences of execution

d. Studio shots

e. Works no longer in existence

f. Sculptures

g. Drawings

5. Sortmind.com portfolios

a. Paintings

b. New Works

c. Photographs

d. Drawings and Other Works

e. Pastels

f. Mandalas

g. Soul Institute Images

h. Sortmind Trilogy Images

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Showings

Group Shows

Dallas Visual Art Center / The Contemporary, Members Show

1997: Reconnaissance
1998: Untitled Planet
1999: 22 Years Deep Fragments Flow Renewal
2000: Sixteen Cuboids Adrift, or, Life Turned Out To Be a "K"
2001: Another Snapshot of This Moment
2002: Known Force
2003: Keys
2004: Pottery Future
2005: Cloud/Paperweight
2006: The Mandala So Far

500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas - Open Show

2000: Glossy Abstract
2002: Painting Beings
2003: Connective
2004: The 2003 Triptych
2005: Blue-Green Abstract
2006: Block Space / Change Immersion Goddess
2007: The World is an Art Supply
2008: Renaissance Awareness Symbol
2009: Meditation Object: Time and Electricity

City of Dallas, Employees Annual Show

2001: Blue Column After 13 Years of Photographs
2002: Energy Arrangement 3 and Energy Arrangement 8
2003: Known Force
2004: The First Twenty Steps

Lakewood Library, Dallas, Texas - Lakewood Art Show

2004: North Planetary Woods
2005: Trans-Shamanic Healing Centre
2006: Liberation Symbol II
2007: Eleven More Spheres
2008: Superimposed Moons
2009: Is There a Better Way?

Bradshaw Gallery, Central Library, Dallas, Texas - 2006 "Diversities" Show

Copying Dark Matter Chromosomes
Mandala II

Bradshaw Gallery, Central Library, Dallas, Texas - 2007 "Self-Chosen" Show

Raven Meditation 273
Raven Meditation 274

Bradshaw Gallery, Central Library, Dallas, Texas - 2008 "Self-Chosen" Show

Unfolded Singularity
Eccentric Mandala 1
Eccentric Mandala 2
Eccentric Mandala 3
Eccentric Mandala 4

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Bradshaw Gallery, Central Library, Dallas, Texas - 2009 "Self-Chosen" Show

Renaissance Awareness Symbol
Meditation Object: Time and Electricity

Second Floor Gallery, Fort Worth - 8/24-9/28/07

Another Snapshot of This Moment
Cloud/Paperweight
Saturn Composition

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Second Floor Gallery, Fort Worth - 10/6-11/9/07

Cloud/Paperweight
The Mandala So Far
Mandala II
Raven Meditation 273
Raven Meditation 274
Superimposed Moons

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Second Floor Gallery, Fort Worth - 11/16/07 - 1/4/08

Gathering the Fever Dreams
Industrial Planet
New Universe
Moment

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Second Floor Gallery, Fort Worth - 2/11/08 - 3/7/08

Eccentric Mandala 1
Eccentric Mandala 2
Eccentric Mandala 3
Eccentric Mandala 4

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 ARTworksDFW, Inaugural Show, Fort Worth, 2/11/10-3/20/10

Downtown Dream Institute
First Day of Class
Moon Frequencies
The Voice
We Are a Mystical Number

 ARTworksDFW, Second Show, Fort Worth, 3/26/10-5/14/10

The World Exposition from Orbit
The Unexpected
Meditation Object: Time and Electricity
The World is an Art Supply

 ARTworksDFW, Third Show, Fort Worth, 5/17/10-

Homage 1, Red-Orange-Yellow
Homage 2, Blue-White-Orange
Is There a Better Way? / It Has Come to Be That It Is What It Is
Past and Future Lives
Farewell to Constraining God Symbols 

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Solo Shows

Lakewood Library, Dallas, Texas - "Paintings - Michael D. Smith," July-August  2003

Blue Column After 13 Years of Photographs
Venusian Eclipse Sea Marble
Connective
Another Snapshot of This Moment

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Fretz Park Library, Dallas, Texas - "Paintings - Michael D. Smith"

22 Years Deep Fragments Flow Renewal August - December 2003
North Planetary Woods August - December 2003
More Uncarved Blocks August 2003 - May 2004
Venusian Eclipse Sea Marble December 2003 - March 2005
Painting Beings December 2003 - March 2005
Glossy Abstract May 2004 - March 2005
Pottery Future March 2005 - May 2006
Reconnaissance March 2005 -May 2006
Disaster Recovery Plan! March 2005 - August 2005
Saturn Composition August 2005 - May 2006

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Version 1, August - December 2003
Version 2, December 2003 - May 2004
Version 3, May 2004 - March 2005
Version 4, March 2005 - August 2005
Version 5, August 2005 - May 2006

Park Forest Library, Dallas, Texas - "Paintings - Michael D. Smith," February 2004

Blue Column After 13 Years of Photographs
Another Snapshot of This Moment
X-Ray Self Portrait
The Little Rescue City
Print Negatives of Energy 1-4

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Renner Frankford Library, Dallas, Texas - "Paintings - Michael D. Smith," June-July 2004

Gesture
Gathering the Fever Dreams
Moonset Galaxyrise
Industrial Planet
Tension Fracture Crystal, or, Art Room Future
The Five Years
New Universe
That Close Moon

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Bradshaw Gallery, Central Library, Dallas, Texas - "Paintings - Michael D. Smith," June 2005

Tension Fracture Crystal, or, Art Room Future
Energy/The Other World (Vertical)
Solar Fusion Cycles / Heavy Elements A
Solar Fusion Cycles / Heavy Elements B
Solar Fusion Cycles / Heavy Elements C
1975
Recent Transmutation
Seven of Cups/The Star
Meditation Drawing
Saturn Composition
Homage 1
Homage 2
New Universe
Gathering the Fever Dreams
That Close Moon
Moonset Galaxyrise
Impermanence
Gesture
Nancy
Six Channeled Structures
...Pause
Industrial Planet
The Five Years
Hyperlink Energy Sunset Dance
Exhibit Poster

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Renner Frankford Library, Dallas, Texas - "Paintings - Michael D. Smith," October 2005

...Pause
Impermanence
Trilogy Forces
North Planetary Woods
Venusian Eclipse Sea Marble
ABCDE, or, Oddly Shaped Life to Elemental Patterns
Cloud/Paperweight
Dream and Journal Interpretation (The True Interstellar Wombat)
Draft Blue Ocean Painting Dream - One-Third Scale
Symphony and Folk Song
Background Radiation
World Sandstorm Data Blocks

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Renner Frankford Library, Dallas, Texas - "Paintings - Michael D. Smith," June 2006

80/20: First Out of the Empire
Meditation Drawing
Earth Renewal Moon
Fourth Floor Space Science
Moment
Oceanmouth and the Five Gods of the Banister
Solar Fusion Cycles / Heavy Elements A
Pluto

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Global Heart Dallas, September 20, 2009 (with Nancy Remp Smith)

Paintings and Drawings in the Show

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Renner Frankford Library, Dallas, Texas - "Paintings - Michael D. Smith," February 2010

22 Years Deep Fragments Flow Renewal
Another Snapshot of This Moment
Blue Column After 13 Years of Photographs
Copying Dark Matter Chromosomes
Homage 1, Red-Orange-Yellow
Homage 2, Blue-White-Orange
Is There a Better Way? / It Has Come to Be That It Is What It Is
The Later Kingdoms of the Dinosaurs
The Little Rescue City
Mandala II
The Mandala So Far
Meditation Object: Time and Electricity
Past and Future Lives
Peter Traumfoster (Old Moon Before Sunrise)
Pottery Future
Raven Meditation 273
Raven Meditation 274
Renaissance Awareness Symbol
Superimposed Moons
The World is an Art Supply

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Sales

2004: Lakshmi was Reborn as Vishnu's Consort in Each of his Incarnations
2004: Goddess Draft 1
2005: Coming Into My Own
2006: Practice Fate A
2006: Practice Fate B
2006: Practice Fate C
2007: Goddess Pastel X
2007: Goddess Pastel 1
2009: Eccentric Mandala 1
2009: Cloud/Paperweight

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