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ADAA Art Show

Past
Nov 2 – Nov 5, 2023
 
Art Fair Details:

ADAA Art Show
Booth C2
Park Avenue Armory
Nov 2 – 5, 2023

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Above: Kiki Smith, Dark Water, 2023 © Kiki Smith

Pace is pleased to announce details of its presentation for the 2023 edition of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show, running from November 2 to 5 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.

The gallery’s booth (#C2) will spotlight new and recent works by Kiki Smith, who has been an integral figure in Pace’s program for nearly 30 years.

Smith has been cultivating her multidisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing, and textile work since the 1980s. As part of her experimentations across mediums and materials, the artist has drawn inspiration from a wide range of histories, visual cultures, and mythologies to meditate on embodied experiences of the natural world. The works that Smith will show at the ADAA Art Show center on the ecstasy and mystery of nature in full bloom.

Smith’s solo booth presentation will be anchored by sculpture, featuring her large-scale 2023 bronze Dark Water, in which the artist anthropomorphizes the divine power of water as a goddess-like figure, as well as her painted aluminum work Cluster (2021), a dynamic composition of overlapping and colliding five-pointed stars.

Works from her celebrated Pollinator series—comprising numerous wall-mounted sculptural elements that coalesce as a singular, abstract entity—will also figure prominently on the booth. For her Pollinator series, which she began in 2022, Smith draws inspiration from the natural surroundings of her home and studio in Upstate New York, employing an intricate hand-leafing technique for each piece of her installations. Notably, a work from the Pollinator series was included in Smith’s recent solo show at the Albuquerque Museum of Art in New Mexico.

Additional booth highlights include a selection of the artist’s recent Kaaterskill Falls cliché verre prints, which she creates by making inscriptions into a Plexiglass plate, mixing ink on the plate’s surface, and then shooting her images on photogram paper—rendering the ink as white space and exposing the composition outlined within the ink markings. Her dreamy work on paper Long Night Moon (2023), which depicts a wolf against a starry night sky, will also be on view.

Ahead of Smith’s solo presentation at the ADAA Art Show, she will open a solo exhibition titled Empathy at the Diocesan Museum Freising in Germany, running from October 8, 2023 to January 7, 2024. The artist also recently unveiled five mosaics commissioned for the new Grand Central Madison station in New York City, including her 80- foot-long artwork River Light.

 

Featured Works

Kiki Smith, In the Garden, 2023, bronze with gold and Japanese silver leaf, Dimensions variable, 44 elements
Kiki Smith, Dark Water, 2023, bronze, 72" × 65" × 28" (182.9 cm × 165.1 cm × 71.1 cm)
Kiki Smith, Crystal Chandelier, 2023, aluminum and silver leaf, 62" × 28" × 18" (157.5 cm × 71.1 cm × 45.7 cm)
 

All Works

Kiki Smith,
Dark Water
2023, bronze, 72" × 65" × 28" (182.9 cm × 165.1 cm × 71.1 cm)
Kiki Smith,
In the Garden
2023, bronze with gold and Japanese silver leaf, Dimensions variable, 44 elements
Kiki Smith,
Crystal Chandelier
2023, aluminum and silver leaf, 62" × 28" × 18" (157.5 cm × 71.1 cm × 45.7 cm)
Kiki Smith,
Cluster,
2021
2021, aluminum and paint, 8-3/4" × 29-1/2" × 16-1/2" (22.2 cm × 74.9 cm × 41.9 cm) 1/4" × 32" × 14" (0.6 cm × 81.3 cm × 35.6 cm), baseplate
Kiki Smith,
Transmission,
2016
2016, blackened bronze, 13" × 24" × 12" (33 cm × 61 cm × 30.5 cm), overall with base 12-3/4" × 20-1/2" × 4-1/2" (32.4 cm × 52.1 cm × 11.4 cm), sculpture only
Kiki Smith,
Surge
2016, blackened bronze, 14-3/4" × 30" × 12" (37.5 cm × 76.2 cm × 30.5 cm), overall with base 14-1/2" × 22-1/4" × 3" (36.8 cm × 56.5 cm × 7.6 cm), sculpture
Kiki Smith,
Fall I,
2022
2022, cliché verre, 16" × 20" (40.6 cm × 50.8 cm)
Kiki Smith,
Fall II,
2022
2022, cliché verre, 16" × 20" (40.6 cm × 50.8 cm)
Kiki Smith,
Fall III,
2022
2022, cliché verre, 16" × 20" (40.6 cm × 50.8 cm)
Kiki Smith,
Fall IV,
2022
2022, cliché verre, 16" × 20" (40.6 cm × 50.8 cm)
Kiki Smith,
Fall V,
2022
2022, cliché verre, 16" × 20" (40.6 cm × 50.8 cm)
Kiki Smith,
Sunday
2019, bronze, watermelon crystal quartz, paraiba crystal quartz, morganite crystal quartz, and lavender moon quartz, 16" × 6-1/2" × 1/8" (40.6 cm × 16.5 cm × 0.3 cm)
Kiki Smith,
Monday
2019, bronze with Peridot, Paraiba Triplet, and Green Quartz, 12-1/4" × 5-3/4" × 1/8" (31.1 cm × 14.6 cm × 0.3 cm)
Kiki Smith,
Long Night Moon
2023, aqueous archival inkjet, acrylic archival inkjet, white gold leaf on Hahnemühle rag paper, 60" × 43" (152.4 cm × 109.2 cm)
 
 
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About the Artist

Kiki Smith has been known since the 1980s for her multidisciplinary work that explores embodiment and the natural world. She uses a broad variety of materials to continuously expand and evolve a body of work that includes sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing, and textiles.

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