Title:
Untitled Bird Collage
Style: abstract, Contemporary (ca. 1945-present), Surrealism (ca. 1910-1940s)
Medium: Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.), Mixed Media, Wax Stamp, Pencil, and Ink on handmade paper
Year: 1998
Size: height - 9 in, width - 7.2 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, "K. Smith", and dated "1998", Lower Right
Edition: UNIQUE
Estimate: from $2,800 to $4,800
Seller's Description:
(Not in Sale)
Created in 1998, five years before New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) held a retrospective for artist KIKI SMITH entitled "Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, and Things", this small mixed-media collage drawing is evocative and powerful, fetishistic, surréal and sublime. Daughter of artist Tony Smith and actress and opera singer Jane Lawrence, Kiki Smith was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1954. Classified as a “Feminist artist,” Smith uses a multitude of mediums to provocatively explore the political and social issues dealing with gender and race. Often undermining the traditional erotic nature of artistic representations of women, Smith chooses to instead expose the inner organs of the female body creating an ironic metaphor exposing hidden issues inherent in gender identity. Reoccurring themes in Smith’s work include birth, reproduction, mythology, art history, sustenance and Catholicism. Smith is also known for her activism in debates over AIDS, race and battered women.
The Modern Museum of Art in New York has collected her work consistently and owns over fifty of her print projects. In 2005, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of Smith’s work entitled “Kiki Smith, A Gathering 1980-2005”, which traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2006.
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