Posts Tagged “Kiki Smith”

Lebbeus Woods, Architect: Kiki Smith

04.18.2013  |  By
Filed under: 151 3rd, Projects/Series

Lebbeus Woods, Architect is on view at SFMOMA till June 2. Open Space is pleased to be hosting a series of posts on Woods’s work and legacy. Today, please welcome artist Kiki Smith.

I think Lebbeus and I were an eccentric combination. I played the straight man, grounding both works that we made — Skypool in Lapland, Finland, as well as our piec... More

Visitor Flickr Photo(s) of the Week

04.02.2010  |  By
Filed under: Back Page

[A series this time around—visitors posing with Kiki Smith's Virgin Mary sculpture in the SFMOMA Rooftop Garden.]

We choose the Flickr pictures of the week from anything tagged “SFMOMA”. You tag too!

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One on One: Alison Gass on Kiki Smith

06.24.2009  |  By
Filed under: One on One

[Alongside our weekly in-gallery curator "One on One" talks, we post regular ‘one on one' bits from curators, staff, and public, on a particular work or exhibition they're interested in. Follow the series here. Today's post is from assistant curator of painting and sculpture Ali Gass. Thanks Ali!]

Kiki Smith’s Lilith crouches and hangs in a precarious position of emotional and physical tension. The sculpture is a life-like figure of a woman. (Indeed, Smith’s mode of making the work heightens this naturalism, as she cast an actual huma... More