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“I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.”

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Kiki Smith is an American contemporary artist known for her sculptures, paintings, and prints. Her work often explores themes such as life, death, religion, and gender, and is celebrated for its unique style and profound emotional expression. more

“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.”

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“I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.”

Way Animal Figures Introducing Animals In Nature

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“I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!”

Ifs Knows Persons 80s Nostalgic

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“When I was young, it was an exciting time to be in New York.”

Young New York Exciting

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“It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.”

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“Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.”

People Young Difficult Generations New York Over You More Time Discovering Yourself

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“I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.”

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

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

People Art Art Is Expanding

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

Way Life Is

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