Mel Smothers is an American contemporary artist born in the west coast of the USA in 1947. Smothers evolved as an artist in Pop Art America during the 60's and 70”s, working alongside his contemporary Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud. Thiebaud would later become Smothers’ University professor and a forefront figure of American Pop Art and Warhol the subject of over 300 paintings called "I Painted Over Andy Warhol."
Mel exhibits at Art Lives Here, and Carter-Burden Gallery, in New York City. Hay Hill Gallery, London. TAG Gallery, and bG Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2006 he was selected to ‘Artists of Year,’ exhibition at Cooper-Union, NYC. He holds an MFA from the University of Idaho, 1999. He has taught Art at the University of California, University of Idaho and University of Nevada. Today he enjoys a continued connection to the academic art world as Adjunct Professor at Lake Tahoe Community College.
He has a hard-to-find studio along the shore in Lake Tahoe. He is also a student of fly fishing and jazz violin.