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Kiki Smith is a prolific interdisciplinary artist, deftly working across media in sculpture, drawing, and printmaking. In this enigmatic print, pink, yellow, and blue glitter streaks across a portrait, emanating from the subject’s eyes, and encircling their head. Smith believes “You take love and devotion and put it into something.” This image has that devotional quality, reflecting the artist’s interests in the spiritual or mystical as it exists in real human experience.
SkowheganBOX no. 1: Summer Night
Kiki Smith (American, born in 1954)
2011
Medium/Technique
Four-color lithograph with glitter, hand coloring and white gold leaf on hosho paper, one from the portfolio of five prints
Dimensions
Image: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Sheet: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Sheet: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Graham and Ann Gund
Accession Number2011.2170.5
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Portfolios
Kiki Smith is a prolific interdisciplinary artist, deftly working across media in sculpture, drawing, and printmaking. In this enigmatic print, pink, yellow, and blue glitter streaks across a portrait, emanating from the subject’s eyes, and encircling their head. Smith believes “You take love and devotion and put it into something.” This image has that devotional quality, reflecting the artist’s interests in the spiritual or mystical as it exists in real human experience.
Signed
l.r. signed in graphite
Marks
l.r. in graphite 2011; l.l. 2/30
ProvenanceSpring 2011, sold by Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, Maine to Ann and Graham Gund, Boston; 2011, year-end gift of Ann and Graham Gund to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.