Thomas
Cole - National Historic Site
Kiki
Smith – From the Creek
Kiki
Smith’s From the Creek is a site-specific exhibition in the series, Open House:
Contemporary Art in Conversation with Cole, on until November 19, the multidisciplinary
exhibition takes place inside and outside of the 200-year old home of the artist Thomas
Cole. Cole is known for ushering in a new form of landscape painting unique in
America, and whose vision would inspire the Hudson River School of Painting.
Both artists, residing as Smith Notes:
“about a mile, and two centuries apart”
along
the Catskill Creek, have made work that is directly inspired by the waterway
that flow from the Catskill Mountains to the Hudson River. Smith worked with curator, Kate Menconeri, to site over 25 artworks for this installation, which includes ten-foot tall
jacquard tapestries, recent prints, and sculptures of bronze, aluminum and
glass.
Excerpts from
the introduction to the catalogue by curator Kate Menconeri
“Many of the sculptures I’ve made come directly from prints,
or I’ve made them using the same techniques as an etching. I am very attracted to objects that hover
between flat and three-dimensions.”
Kiki
Smith
In
conversation with curator Kate Menconeri
“It is fascinating to me how a house holds you, and how people embellish their
lives and try to make their environment beautiful, either through their own
efforts or through culturally manufactured things. Mr. Cole was very involved in thinking about
domestic aspects of life. It is evident
in the pleasure and care he took in his own house. I feel the movement, flux and
uncertainty of home.”
Kiki
Smith
In
conversation with curator Kate Menconeri
“In
my tapestries images are collaged together with things put in proximity to one
another, in very unnatural ways.”
Kiki
Smith
In
conversation with curator Kate Menconeri
Congregation
- 2014
jacquard
tapestry
Thomas
Cole National Historic Site
Kiki
Smith – From the Creek
Kiki
Smith was born in 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany, and lives and works in Catskill
and New York City. Since 1982 her work has been in over 150 exhibitions
worldwide, including solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, and the Walker Art Center.
Thomas
and Maria’s Bedroom
Kiki
Smith – From the Creek
The
Nursery
Kiki
Smith – From the Creek
Esperanza – 2015
intaglio
and collage on Hahnemuhle paper
Little Red Riding Hood Dolls
The
Nursery
Kiki
Smith – From the Creek
Thomas
Cole National Historic Site
Kiki
Smith – From the Creek
All
text taken from the Kiki Smith - From the Creek – exhibition booklet – 2017