Kiki Smith, Fall/Winter, 1999

Kiki Smith

Fall/Winter, 1999

Photogravure , aquatint, etching and drypoint on two panels

Pencil signed on the right sheet and numbered 30/60 on the left sheet by Kiki Smith

Frame Included

Pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of 60

Published by: Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper; collaborating printer: Jonathan Higgins

Frame included: floated and framed in original vintage frame

Measurements:
Frame:
28 x 36.5 x 1.5 inches
Artwork (per sheet)
22 x 15 inches (each individual sheet)

Fall/Winter is an excellent example of Kiki Smith’s continuing interest in the human body and its relationship to the animal and natural world. The print illustrates one rotation of life’s ongoing cycle of birth, death, and regeneration. The seated women, likely self-portraits, reveal a subject succumbing to the darker forces of nature. Even the demeanor of the squirrel seated on her lap diminishes from a fluffy and hearty creature in Fall, to a weak and weary animal in Winter. Together, these works explore human mortality and life’s interconnectedness with the natural world. 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....” The seated woman, clearly a self-portrait, reveals a vulnerable body succumbing to the darker forces of nature..."

Indeed, human mortality and life’s interconnectedness with the natural world fascinates Smith. Considered one of the most influential artists of her generation, Smith incorporates enigmatic and radical reinterpretations of conventional representations of the human form in her work. Represented by Pace Wildenstein Gallery, 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; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, Switzerland, among many others. Her work is in public and private collections worldwide. Daughter of artist Tony Smith and actress and opera singer Jane Lawrence, Kiki Smith was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1954. Classified as a “Feminist artist,” Smith uses a multitude of mediums to provocatively explore the political and social issues dealing with gender and race. Often undermining the traditional erotic nature of artistic representations of women.

Measurements:
Frame:
28 x 36.5 x 1.5 inches
Artwork (per sheet)
22 x 15 inches

About Kiki Smith:
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.

Smith has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions worldwide including over 25 museum exhibitions. Her work has been featured at five Venice Biennales, including the 2017 edition. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2017 was awarded the title of Honorary Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Previously, Smith was recognized in 2006 by TIME Magazine as one of the “TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.” Other awards include the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 2000; the 2009 Edward MacDowell Medal; the 2010 Nelson A. Rockefeller Award, Purchase College School of the Arts; the 2013 U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts, conferred by Hillary Clinton; and the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center, among others. She is an adjunct professor at NYU and Columbia University.
Courtesy of Pace Gallery

Published by: Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper; collaborating printer: Jonathan Higgins