Art:21 | Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith's work explores the body as a receptacle for knowledge, belief, and storytelling. Smith turned the figurative tradition inside out by creating objects and drawings based on organs, cellular forms, and the human nervous system. This body of work evolved to incorporate animals, domestic objects, and narrative tropes from classical mythology and folk tales.

Kiki Smith is featured in the Season 2 episode "Stories" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".

Learn more about Kiki Smith: http://www.art21.org/artists/kiki-smith

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[BRIisFINEart]

Idk why some are suggesting she should tap into her positive forces? Positive art is so redundant. Her work is oddly scary, gives you chills, body positions in odd composure. she's showing you what alot do not want to see but we still look. a bad car accident on the side of the street, we do not want to look bc we know its something bad/scary/grumble but we do anyway. Her art work is deeper than just scary or negative. Theres more connotation-not all art is made for your walls. i love her work.

[wizzlewolf]

Kiki is beyond awesome. I absolutely love and respect her work and her persona!

[sclapione]

@BRIisFINEart " Positive art is so redundant. " Absolute Bullshit.

[Glowormm]

I love her concepts in her work. :)

[NellySoup]

I like her use of death. You hear so often about people generating positive experiences, from negative ones - and that forces them to live a little more. Looking at all these dead things, makes you realise in relation to them, you're still alive. Go out - and do something fun.

[ForstaSvenskenIRymdn]

@BRIisFINEart Can you define positive art? And what makes it redundant? Isnt looking at something we "dont" want to look at redundant?

[Stellaspike]

I don't think death is necessarily negative. Sure, no one wants to die but, everyone does, wouldn't it be better to decide your relationship with death before it decides for you? I think the very nature of avoiding the contemplation of mortality creates a blank in what could be a way to deliberate on your death experience.

Course, this is all coming from someone who paints dead animals

[votoxvoto]

Xanax , anyone?

[witgenstein69]

ella vino a mi estado, y la conocí a travez de un tipografo ya que ella hizo una carpeta de grabados, no converse con ella pero me gusta su gráfica. creo que fue invitada por francisco toledo.

[666ME666TAL666]

how the fuck is this feminism? it's just retarded crap...oh wait, that's the SAME FUCKIN THING! lol

[spaznadz]

Dead crows are art? Huh.

[ThroughArts]

"The body is our common denominator and the stage for our pleasure and pain. Through it I aim to espress who we are, and how we live and die." Kiki Smith