Benefit Prints
Kiki Smith, Fall/Winter, 1999
Kiki Smith, Fall/Winter, 1999, photogravure, aquatint, etching, and drypoint, two panels, sheet size: 22 x 15 in. each, image size 9 x 9 in. each, edition of 60
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About the Work
Considered one of the most influential artists of her generation, Kiki Smith incorporates enigmatic and radical reinterpretations of conventional representations of the human form in her work. Comprising two prints, Fall/Winter is a leading example of her continuing interest in the body and its relationship to the animal and natural worlds. The imagery illustrate the rotation of life’s perpetual cycle of birth, death, and regeneration. Writing in the Winter 1999 issue of Art Journal, the art historian and critic Maura Reilly observes, “By offering up the last two seasons (there is no Spring/Summer), Smith underscores the fragility of life and the imminence of death.” The seated women in the prints—self-portraits of the artist—reveal a vulnerable body succumbing to the darker forces of nature. Even the demeanor of the squirrel, seated on her lap, diminishes from a bushytailed heartiness in Fall to a weary lethargy in Winter.
Represented by Pace Gallery in New York and Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston, Smith has had numerous exhibitions throughout the world, including solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, Switzerland, among many others. In 2010, the Brooklyn Museum in New York presented Kiki Smith: Sojourn, described as a “unique, site-specific installation exploring ideas of creative inspiration and the cycle of life in relation to women artists.”
For Fall/Winter, Smith worked closely with the master printer Jonathan Higgins and his colleagues, Eileen Foti, Gail Deery, and Randy Hemminghaus, at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper (renamed the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions in 2006).
Contact
For more information on benefit prints, please contact Hannah O’Reilly Malyn, CAA development associate, at 212-392-4435.
