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Kiki Smith’s vast body of work encompasses an impressive
array of media, methods and materials. Best known for her sculptural work
related to the human body, Smith is
also fascinated
with the interdependent
relationship between humans and the natural
world.
For her accordion-style
book sculpture Tidal, she
photographed the moon with a telescope then created
13 folded panels (similar
to the 13 full moons in a year) and
attached Japanese paper photo-lithographed
with continuous images of rolling waves.
The connection between time, the human body and nature can
also be seen
in Smith’s lithograph Etc, Etc.
In this rare self-portrait,
the artist places herself within the rhythm
of nature, rather than as a
spectator to the changing seasons.
The daughter of sculptor Tony Smith,
Kiki Smith was born in
Nuremberg, Germany and raised in South Orange, NJ.
She attended Hartford Art School,
CT,
and later
moved to New
York
where she currently resides.
Smith received the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture
in 2000 and has
participated in
the Whitney
Biennial three times in the past
decade.
Her work is in numerous
prominent
museum collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
NY, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, NY and The Museum
of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA.
Image credit:
Kiki Smith
Etc. Etc.
1999
Lithograph, intaglio with multi-dimensional appliqués,
44.5 x 26.75 inches
Co-copyright Kiki Smith and Universal Limited Art Editions,
1999
Courtesy of Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc., New York, NY.
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