Shinique Smith
Shinique Smith (born January 9, 1971) is a Brooklyn-based American visual artist known for her colorful installations and paintings that incorporate found textiles and various collage materials.[1] She is represented by New York gallery Yvon Lambert.
Early Life
Shinique Smith is from Baltimore. She earned her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003.[1] Her artistic training began in childhood, encouraged by her mother who is a former fashion editor.[2] Smith studied drawing at the Baltimore School for the Arts at age twelve and ballet at age four.[2] In high school she started to produce graffiti on local buildings, and in graduate school she studied Japanese calligraphy.[2] These varied interests in "high" and "low" art forms would eventually inspire her mature style, which fuses traditional painting and non-traditional materials like clothing and stuffed animals.[2]
Career
Shinique Smith began to utilize used clothing in her work after reading a New York Times Magazine article about secondhand garments shipped to Africa from thrift stores.[3] Jen Mergel, senior curator of contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, has described Smith's palette and use of found materials as "a product of United States culture especially from the 1980s."[4]
References
- ^ a b Pinder, Kymberly N. (2008). "Unbaled: An Interview with Shinique Smith". Art Journal. 67 (2): 7.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ a b c d Brooks, Katherine (18 September 2014). "Shinique Smith Crafts A Celestial Universe From Ink, Textiles And Other 'Bright Matter'". Huffington Post. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ^ Sheets, Hilarie M. (7 March 2013). "Giving Castoffs a Second Life". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ^ Edgers, Geoff (August 16, 2014). ""Bringing joy to Smith's 'BRIGHT MATTER' works"". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
[Category:American women artists]]