2010 University of Washington MFA Thesis Exhibition
Six Portraits by Thomas Ruff
I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith
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Christopher DeLaurenti: N30: Live at the WTO Protest November 30, 1999
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Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain
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Allan Sekula: Waiting for Tear Gas
The Gift ShopI Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith
North Galleries
March 6, 2010 – August 15, 2010
Comprising loans from the artist’s archives and several private collections, this exhibition will explore a number of distinct ways photographs play a central role in the development of Smith’s aesthetic and in the creation of her art. Among the remarkable range of Smith’s photographic works, the exhibition will feature hand-made composites, diaristic snapshots, video collaborations, and unique takes on computer-based techniques. Conceived as a series of distinctive installations, the exhibition will incorporate dense arrangements of snapshots that suggest how Smith thinks visually, along with large-scale presentation photographs of her sculptures, and sequences of staged narratives – Smith’s unique versions of traditional fairy tales. It will juxtapose source photographs from the beginning of a project with the sculptures they inspired. The exhibition will also feature examples of important early experiments with captured images, such as the slide show-performance Life Wants to Live (1982), and the artist’s animations of 19th-century motion photographs by Eadweard Muybridge.
Curated for the Henry by Chief Curator Elizabeth Brown with generous support from ArtsFund, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Steven Johnson and Walter Sudol.
I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith will be on view at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College from September 17, 2011 until December 30, 2011.