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Now that Gallery Girls is over (probably never to return, which let's be honest won't be too much of a tragedy for anyone), and in an effort to make the start of the week suck a little less, Monday nights have become art/artist documentary night.
On the screen tonight: Chiara Clemente's Our City Dreams (profiling New York City-based artists Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero (1926-2009)).
On the menu: pasta puttanesca (appropriately cheap and dirty, like some of the best parts of the city).
Showing posts with label Kiki Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kiki Smith. Show all posts
Monday, October 8, 2012
Monday, September 27, 2010
Image of the Day
Kiki Smith: Balanced Light, a reflection on the changing of seasons featured in the New York Times op-ed pages on March 20, 2007, and in this weekend's special section celebrating 40 years of the Times' Opinion Pages. Click here for a video featuring select artwork from the opinion pages, and here for a truly amazing collection of excerpts from opinion articles over the years.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
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If you're in Seattle or environs and haven't seen the Kiki Smith show at the Henry Art Gallery yet, I highly – no, insistently – recommend a trip before it closes this weekend.
Kiki Smith, Untitled
This jam-packed exhibition of Smith's sculpture, photos, drawings, and collage is easily one of the best I've seen in at least the past year. The body of work on display evidences a designer's eye for composition, placement, and contrast, and a sensibility that sees the natural world in terms that are both clinical and lyrically beautiful. A large part of the show consists of photographs of Smith's sculptures in the making – work that sounds boring but that, in addition to revealing Smith's process of creation, is often dark and fascinating in its own right.
Kiki Smith, Untitled (Head of Guanyin)
Kiki Smith, Harpies
All along the way Smith explores themes of life, death, and decay, myth and reality, and flips the script on the line between object and viewer.
Kiki Smith, Sleeping Witch
You come away feeling like you've learned a secret about the dirty muck and spiritual mystery of life that is common to the most and least among us alike. A+.
Kiki Smith, Untitled (from: Crow)
I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith is up through Sunday, August 15. The Henry is open 11-4 Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday, and 11-9 Thursday and Friday.
If you're in Seattle or environs and haven't seen the Kiki Smith show at the Henry Art Gallery yet, I highly – no, insistently – recommend a trip before it closes this weekend.
Kiki Smith, Untitled This jam-packed exhibition of Smith's sculpture, photos, drawings, and collage is easily one of the best I've seen in at least the past year. The body of work on display evidences a designer's eye for composition, placement, and contrast, and a sensibility that sees the natural world in terms that are both clinical and lyrically beautiful. A large part of the show consists of photographs of Smith's sculptures in the making – work that sounds boring but that, in addition to revealing Smith's process of creation, is often dark and fascinating in its own right.
Kiki Smith, Untitled (Head of Guanyin) 
Kiki Smith, Harpies All along the way Smith explores themes of life, death, and decay, myth and reality, and flips the script on the line between object and viewer.
Kiki Smith, Sleeping Witch You come away feeling like you've learned a secret about the dirty muck and spiritual mystery of life that is common to the most and least among us alike. A+.
Kiki Smith, Untitled (from: Crow) I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith is up through Sunday, August 15. The Henry is open 11-4 Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday, and 11-9 Thursday and Friday.
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