ARIES EAST GALLERY
2805 Main Street, Brewster, MA 02631 (508) 896-7681, (508) 237-9873 geoffreysmitharieseast@gmail.com www.arieseastgallery.com
A contemporary gallery located in Brewster, Aries East Gallery represents established artists working in oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolor across a variety of subjects including sporting art, landscapes and seascapes. On July 28, the gallery will host a celebration and open house in honor of its 40th anniversary from 5 to 7 p.m.
Owner Geoffrey Smith’s work is featured in the corporate collections for AT&T headquarters in Basking Ridge, John Hancock Company and private collections worldwide. In 1973, he was the recipient of the Prix-de-Paris Award in New York City where his paintings represented American art in Paris. In 1979, he received first prize in the National Art Competition.
In 1987, he was selected by the New York Racing Association for a showing of horseracing paintings at the Clubhouse Gallery in Saratoga, and in 1990, he was chosen to be a featured artist at Belmont Park. In 1991, he was the cover artist for Pops By the Sea for the Boston Pops Orchestra; in 1993 and 2018, he was cover artist for the Hyannis Yacht Club’s Figawi Regatta; and his work has graced the covers for the Head of the Charles Regatta, the US Ryder Cup and Fine Art of America’s Fairways. In 1994, Smith’s painting of Muhammad Ali was selected by Northeastern University’s Sport in Society to present to Ali as the first inductee.
He is represented in galleries in Great Britain and the U.S. including Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Newburyport, Chatham and Saint Ives in Cornwall, England.