Kiki Smith Prints and Multiples

" Noon 2007" Portrait of Musician Ryan Bingham engraving by Kiki Smith of a young man looking directly at the viewer. His look is not one of challenge, but more of a questioning nature. It is numbered on verso 28/33, and dated 2007. Kiki Smith (1954 - ) is a West German-born American artist. Her work encompasses many themes: sex, birth, regeneration and death along with personal investigation of her life and those of her family. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender. Her recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith lives and works in New York City and the Hudson Valley, New York State. Her father was sculpture artist, Tony Smith and her mother was actress and opera singer Jane Lawrence. Although Kiki's work takes a very different form than that of her parents, early exposure to her father's process of making geometric sculptures allowed her to experience formal craftsmanship firsthand. Smith was enrolled at Hartford Art School in Connecticut for eighteen months from 1974 to 1975, then moved to New York City in 1976 and joined Collaborative Projects (Colab), an artist collective. The influence of this radical group's use of unconventional materials can be in seen in her work. For a short time in 1984, she studied to be an emergency medical technician and sculpted body parts, and by 1990, she began to craft human figures. In addition to print making Kiki Smith has created in a number of different mediums such as film, sculpture, tapestries, books and the confines of commissions. She experimented in a wide range of printmaking processes. Some of her earliest print works were screen-printed dresses, scarves and shirts, often with images of body parts. In association with Colab, Smith printed an array of posters in the early 1980s containing political statements or announcing Colab events. In 1988 she created "All Souls”, a fifteen-foot screen-print work featuring repetitive images of a fetus, an image Smith found in a Japanese anatomy book...

An etching by Kiki Smith titled "Bat." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figures for this etching on wove paper creating it close to life size and therefore causing the ...

Kiki Smith Little Chicks, 1998 One color etching on Ruscombe Mill Girtin 180 gsm paper with deckled edges 22 × 28 3/4 inches Edition 74/100 Signed, dated and numbered in graphite low...

My Secret Business, 1992-1993 Duotone offset litho, Lithograph Sheet measures 30.13'' x 22.5'' (76 X 56 cm). 23 1/2 × 18 in (59.7 × 45.7 cm) image. Hand-signed by artist, Signed, da...

Kiki Smith "Sampler" Original Letterpress with Ink and Foil Additions c.2007 Rare print by Kiki Smith From a very limited edition of 40 Titled "Sampler" Inspired by 18th and 19t...

Continually captivated by nature, Kiki Smith proclaimed, “I dream about birds, birds are stand-ins for souls.” Her work is collected by major institutions such as the Museum of Moder...

Kiki Smith Untitled, 1995 Woodcut with color additions by hand 31 x 21 inches Edition 7 of 47 Signed In 1995 five well-known American artists - Donald Baechler, Julian Lethbridge, R...

Artist: Kiki Smith, American (1954 - ) Title: Europa, I am the Flesh of the Full Moon Year: 2000/2006 Medium: Pigmented Paper Collage Multiple, signed, dated and numbered in pencil ...

Continually captivated by nature, Kiki Smith proclaimed, “I dream about birds, birds are stand-ins for souls.” Her work is collected by major institutions such as the Museum of Moder...

This lithograph and collage on Wove paper was created in 1998. Signed by the artist in pencil and dated in a paper folder with the printed title, from an ...