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Kiki Smith

Past
Aug 4 – Aug 14, 2022
East Hampton
 
Exhibition Details:

Kiki Smith
Aug 4 – 14, 2022

Galleries:

68 Park Place
East Hampton

Connect:

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Above: Kiki Smith, Sungrazer VII, 2019 © Kiki Smith

Pace is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Kiki Smith at its East Hampton gallery.

On view from August 4 to 14, the show will include sculptures, works on paper, and prints, spotlighting Smith’s multidisciplinary practice and her explorations of the tensions between heaviness and fragility as well as stability and ephemerality. This presentation will mark Smith’s twentieth solo exhibition with Pace, which has represented her since 1994.

Featuring large-scale bronze Sungrazer sculptures, meditative drawings of raindrops, cyanotypes depicting semi-abstracted climatic phenomena, and more, the exhibition focuses on the wonders of the natural world, presented through a playful and whimsical lens. Other works in the show include the bronze cat sculpture Minou (2021), the bronze owl sculpture Sentry (2020), and a selection of etchings and photopolymer prints. This East Hampton presentation showcases Smith’s longstanding interest in narratives, symbols, and wide-ranging histories of visual culture.

Later this year, Smith will open solo exhibitions at the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico and the Seoul Museum of Art.

 

Featured Works

Kiki Smith, Blue Rain III, 2016, ink on paper, 20" × 24-1/2" (50.8 cm × 62.2 cm) 22-3/4" × 27-1/2" × 1-1/2" (57.8 cm × 69.9 cm × 3.8 cm), framed
Kiki Smith, Sungrazer VII, 2019, bronze, 110" × 48" × 48" (279.4 cm × 121.9 cm × 121.9 cm)
Kiki Smith, Sentry, 2020, bronze, 18-1/2" × 29" × 17" (47 cm × 73.7 cm × 43.2 cm)
Kiki Smith, Whirling 2, 2022, ink, acrylic paint on paper, 23-1/4" × 28-15/16" (59.1 cm × 73.5 cm) 26-3/4" × 32-1/2" × 1-1/2" (67.9 cm × 82.6 cm × 3.8 cm), framed
Kiki Smith, Minou, 2022, bronze and sterling silver, 10-1/2" × 19" × 11" (26.7 cm × 48.3 cm × 27.9 cm)
Kiki Smith, Messier 51a, 2022, ink, acrylic paint on paper, 24-3/4" × 17-9/16" (62.9 cm × 44.6 cm) 28-1/4" × 21" × 1-1/2" (71.8 cm × 53.3 cm × 3.8 cm), framed
 

Installation Views

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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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