As part of ArtCenter's Graduate Art Seminar, painter Josh Smith will give a wide-ranging talk on his irreverent body of work, as well as advice for emerging young artists.

Smith is one of the 13 artists featured in The Forever Now, a controversial painting show at MoMA, described by many critics with the rhetoric du jour as the first survey of zombieism.

The artist earned acclaimed, including from the New York Times, with his "name paintings," a series of works that use the letters J-O-S-H S-M-I-T-H as the subject.