Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith the daughter of Tony Smith the sculptor creates imagery and sculpture that deals with a social political vocabulary. She primarily focuses on body and the inadvertent undermining of the female form of the female body and spirit by male artist through the exposure and examination of the female anatomy and feminine roles in society. Kiki has a broad base of media that she works in both three dimensional and two dimensional, with a primary focus on sculpture, print and installation based work, containing prints and multiple cast objects made of bronze. Most of her work is based around the repetition of image or objects as a way of invoking an ideal or image for the work giving it conceptual connotations allowing the viewer to understand and respond to the works intent. "Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet everyone is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries." Smith 1998
Kiki Smith the daughter of Tony Smith the sculptor creates imagery and sculpture that deals with a social political vocabulary. She primarily focuses on body and the inadvertent undermining of the female form of the female body and spirit by male artist through the exposure and examination of the female anatomy and feminine roles in society. Kiki has a broad base of media that she works in both three dimensional and two dimensional, with a primary focus on sculpture, print and installation based work, containing prints and multiple cast objects made of bronze. Most of her work is based around the repetition of image or objects as a way of invoking an ideal or image for the work giving it conceptual connotations allowing the viewer to understand and respond to the works intent. "Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet everyone is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries." Smith 1998
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