Kiki Smith and Paper
Kiki Smith and Paper: The Body, the Muse, and the Spirit
August 8, 2017 - December 2, 2017
Heralded as one of the most distinctive voices of her generation, Kiki Smith has been crafting captivating, challenging art for more than 35 years – from her early wax and plaster female figures to colorful wall-size tapestries of women and animals in nature. Birth, death, and regeneration are recurring themes – the human condition from its most vulnerable to its most enduring. Although Smith has ventured into an array of mediums, the one material she has most consistently engaged is paper, manipulating it for drawings, prints, and even sculpture.
Highlighting the artist’s passion for paper, this exhibition explored Kiki Smith’s perspective on the human body, and the female form in particular, a figure that has remained the foundation of her art.
Guest Curator
Wendy Weitman, independent curator
An Afternoon with Kiki Smith
Related Events
09.08.2017 - Free Community Workshop
09.09.2017 - 2nd Saturday: Visiting artist Tori Tash
09.21.2017 - Reception
09.22.2017 - Panel Discussion: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (Norman)
09.23.2017 - Unfamiliar Butterfly: Visiting artist, Wendy Jehlen, 21c Museum Hotel (Oklahoma City)
09.27.2017 - Lilith: Wendy Jehlen, Stillwater Community Center
09.28.2017 - drawingLAB: Wendy Jehlen
10.26.2017 - Lunch + Learn: Cristina Gonzalez
11.10.2017 - Lunch + Learn: Students from Gender and Visual Culture
Artist Kiki Smith (on the right)
- Press & Publications
- Resources
FLYER | Kiki Smith and Paper: The Body, the Muse, and the Spirit
SWAY | Artist Information
EDUCATION | Academic Engagements
- Credits
Major support for the exhibition and catalogue is provided by Jim Vallion, Bill Goldston, Malinda and Dick Fischer, OSU Museum of Art Founding Patrons and Charter Members, OSU Museum of Art Advocates, and the OSU/A&M Board of Regents.
This was the third in our New York Project, a series of exhibitions bringing the work of major New York artists to Oklahoma.
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