Tribute to KIKI SMITH

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Kiki Smith is an artist of international prominence whose career has thus far spanned over three decades. She was born in 1954 into a family of artists: Her mother, Jane Lawrence Smith, was an opera singer and actor, and her father, Tony Smith, was an architect, painter prominent sculptor. She helped her father when she was young and over the years has continued to work in close collaboration with other artists, printers, performers, and architects. In the late 1970s, Smith began to participate in exhibitions with Collaborative Projects Inc. (Colab), a group of artists who shared a desire to make their art more accessible to people outside of the conventional art world. At this time she began making accessible multiples—a practice that endured even as Smith’s art entered the mainstream museum and gallery worlds, drew broad public and critical acclaim, and elevated her to a position among the most important and influential of America’s living artists.

"BARCELONA.- The Joan Miró Foundation presents Her memory, an exhibition by Kiki Smith organised in collaboration with the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld and the Kunsthalle in Nuremberg, containing recent work by this American artist. It could actually be considered an “exhibition in progress”, since it has been enlarged at each venue before reaching the Foundation, which is the end of its tour...."
--artdaily.org
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29138
http://www.fundaciomiro-bcn.org/exposicio.php?idioma=4&exposicio=1121&titulo=Kiki%20Smith.%20Her%20Memory