Kiki Smith - 46 artworks - printmaking.

No single, major text has yet been written on Kiki Smith, but numerous catalogue essays from major institutions give homage to the power and beauty of her work. Kiki Smith. Exh. cat., Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 1992. With essays by Claudia Gould, Linda Shearer, and Marguerite Yourcenar. Kiki Smith. Exh. cat.

Kiki Smith is an American artist who was born in Nuremburg, Germany in 1954. The next year, her family moved to South Orange, New Jersey where she lived with her two younger sisters, mother and father. Her father, Tony Smith, was a minimalist artist, known for his large polyhedron-based structures.

Biography Using a multitude of mediums and materials, Kiki Smith’s collections are meditations on life and spirituality, often featuring narratives about origins and endings.

Narrator Kiki and Howard each have allies amongst their children, as is evident straight from the start when Jerome writes emails to his father. Jerome is almost always Kiki’s ally, as he is more like her; Kiki, too, is most proud of Jerome and his standing as a sensitive, intellectual black boy.

Kiki Smith is best known as a sculptor, whose mediums have ranged over the years from glass, plaster, and ceramic to bronze, but she has also worked in paint and embroidery on muslin— materials derived more from the craft tradition than from that.

This essay engages with works produced by American artist Kiki Smith between 1986 and 1993. In particular, I will engage with her sculptures that deal with the body and its fluids. Drawing on feminist theorizations of abjection, I will argue that.

Kiki Smith is a survey monograph of exceptional breadth, featuring the artist’s work from the 1980s to the present day, from her earliest explorations of the physical body, its organs and its fluids, through to her narrative explorations of biblical figures, fairy tales and folklore.

Kiki Smith was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1954. Her father was an American artist who specialized in sculptor. Having a parent who studied and practiced art would have no doubt given Kiki Smith the ability to expand her own artistic pursuits from a young age. However, as she grew into adulthood, she.

Kiki Smith's Wax and Paper Constructions It's useful to see Kiki Smith's bodies as extending in different media the tension between aesthetic disinterest and the visceral response as in her famous series of antiseptic glass jars containing actual body fluids.

The exhibition and accompanying catalogue, Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, and Things (2003), showcase the scope of Smith’s printed art and present it thematically, focusing on such topics as anatomy, self-portraiture, nature, and female iconography. This interactive Web site is similarly arranged and fosters a rich understanding of her innovative.

Creating in a wide variety of media, Kiki Smith has developed a significant body of work that explores the human condition, spirituality, and the natural world. Smith represents the human body in unconventional ways to invoke themes of beliefs and storytelling. As in many of her works, Moon on Crutches Figure 2, 2002, features a female figure.

Kiki Smith’s work in recent years has developed a trajectory of landscape. In the Neuberger Museum of Arts’ Visionary Sugar: Works by Kiki Smith of 2013, the tapestries, sculptures, and drawings suggested a journey in space and in time. Her new exhibition, Wonder, at the Pace Gallery continues this direction with sculptures (pedestal, wall and suspended), tapestry, glass paintings, and.