{"id":974314,"date":"2020-01-08T09:19:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=934615"},"modified":"2020-01-08T09:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:19:59","slug":"chad-smith-talks-new-art-exhibit-confirms-chili-peppers-record-with-john-frusciante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/chad-smith-talks-new-art-exhibit-confirms-chili-peppers-record-with-john-frusciante\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Smith Talks New Art Exhibit, Confirms Chili Peppers Record With John Frusciante"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Hot Chili Peppers<\/a> drummer Chad Smith<\/a> isn\u2019t worried about impressing the art establishment with the newest collection of his work, The Art of Chad Smith<\/em>, currently on display at the Russell Collection Fine Art gallery<\/a> in Austin, Texas. \u201cThis is a fun, new way to express myself,\u201d he says. \u201cIf they dig it [or] don\u2019t dig it, that\u2019s okay. I\u2019m not going to get my feelings hurt if a Basquiat aficionado doesn\u2019t like my work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cViolent Violet\u201d by Chad Smith<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Smith\u2019s venture into the art world began in 2015 when Los Angeles visual art team SceneFour approached the musician. They\u2019d previously worked with drummers like Black Sabbath\u2019s Bill Ward, the Grateful Dead\u2019s Mickey Hart and Slayer\u2019s Dave Lombardo to create eclectic, abstract works that attempted to capture the essence of their music in a visual form. \u201cI thought their ideas were really interesting,\u201d says Smith, who had never previously considered creating visual art. \u201cIt\u2019s always fun to change and grow and challenge yourself and do something different.\u201d<\/p>\n

The process began with Smith playing drums with lighted sticks at SIR Studios in Los Angeles while the SceneFour team photographed him. \u201cThey then take the images and manipulate them in different ways,\u201d Smith says. \u201cThey use different colors, textures and depths. I\u2019ll say to them, \u2018I like that. I don\u2019t like this. What if we did this?\u2019 The whole process takes a few months, though I\u2019m not actually there with them and the printers and sheets and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In some ways, the process reminded him of his day job with the Chili Peppers. \u201cIt\u2019s the same thing where you find the right people that are on the same page as you with a vision,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd you stay open to new things and introduce good ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

His first collection, Parallax<\/em>, debuted in 2016. His second one, The Art of Chad Smith<\/em>, is just rolling out now. Unlike Parallax<\/em>, he enhanced some of these works himself with paint, chalk and even a screwdriver. \u201cI wanted to add some things to make them more special,\u201d he says. \u201cI had this table of tools at my disposal and I just got inspired.\u201d<\/p>\n