Hassel Smith
Dilexi Gallery
Any student of Smith’s oeuvre over the last two decades will certainly gain enormous insight into the working habits of the artist from his recent exhibits at the Worth Ryder Gallery in Berkeley and at this gallery. Smith has for the last two years painted a number of very broad, whimsical, figurative pictures which have been included with his more widely known abstractions in one-man shows in London and Los Angeles, and in group exhibits in the Bay area. The two latest one-man exhibitions contain the figure paintings solely. The concentration of attention on these works does not necessarily