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Kiki Smith Biography

Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith lives and works in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City.

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If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

Care, Determination, Somehow, Sticks, Take, Work

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.

Art, Important, Involved, Joined, Studio, Studios

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

Although, Catholic, Pray, Praying, Say, Spiritual

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

Art, Believe, Loose, Manifestation, Physical, Spiritual

You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.

Barely, Grace, Kitchen, Know, Vision, World

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

Figure, Figures, Like, Mystery, Printmaking, Trying

Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.

Changes, Lighter, Lighters, Part, Tolerate

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

Constricting, Larger, Life, Life Is, Way, Ways

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

Collaboration, Trust, Work, Working It, World

Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.

Constructing, Identity, Important, Significant

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Believe, Culture, Entertaining, Frightened

It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.

Amount, Art, Museums, School, Society

The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.

Attention, Life, Miracle, People

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

Anonymity, Having, Pleasure, Privacy, Reductive, Thinking

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.

Character, Individuals, Portraiture, References, Thinking, Wall

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

Art, Energy, Happens, Making

The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.

Art, Expanding, Necessity, People

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

Art, Listening, Making, Think, Thinking

We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.

Complicated, Contradictory, Interest, Want, Way, Work

When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!

Care, Older, Planet, Running, Trying

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