Kiki Smith | Krakow Witkin Gallery

Kiki Smith Sunrise, Sunset 2016 Aluminum

Overall size with base: 19 1/2 x 12 3/4 x 7 inches (49.5 x 32.4 x 17.8 cm)
Edition of 13
Engraved KS 2016 and numbered along edge of bottom tail
(Inventory #31161)

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Kiki Smith Here 2017 Ceramic

12 1/2 x 11 x 12 inches (31.8 x 27.9 x 30.5 cm)
Edition of 13
Stamped Kiki Smith 2017 4/13 along bottom edge
(Inventory #31163)

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Kiki Smith Heart in Hand 2016 Aluminum with gold leaf

12 x 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches (30.5 x 24.8 x 17.1 cm)
Edition of 9
Engraved KS 2016 W along base edge
(Inventory #32670)

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Kiki Smith Open Window, Chair with Flowers 2008 Unique collage with ink, graphite, and lithograph on Nepalese paper

Image/paper size: 92 1/2 x 86 inches (235 x 218.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33109)

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Kiki Smith Open Window, Chair with Flowers 2008 Unique collage with ink, graphite, and lithograph on Nepalese paper

Image/paper size: 92 1/2 x 86 inches (235 x 218.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33109)

“I try to really be attentive to where my work wants to go and trust that it will take me some place that’s informative.”

Kiki Smith likes the bareness of colonial New England aesthetics and has explored the forms of chairs for many years. The women that she depicts are of all different ages and sometimes multiple ages. Oftentimes, Smith renders flowers at various stages of their life cycles, as well. Her subjects are grounded in daily living or historic narratives and yet they can become fantastical. In “Open Window, Chair with Flowers,” the bouquet placed on an otherwise unused chair is juxtaposed with an open window. The window is formed, piecemeal, so as to create a series of interlocking rectangles that make it hard to recognize which pane of glass is in front of which other pane. The symbolism of the different elements is open-ended, the ‘feel’ of the scenario is particular and yet it is not just a scene, an image on paper, but an object to behold: The flowers are collaged on the chair; the paper on which the chair is situated, is attached to the paper on which the window is assembled. The objects (pieces of Nepalese paper) on which there are depictions of other objects (chair, flowers, window) are as significant as the images. Physical reality, depiction, and imagination are in balance.

“I really like the chair as a stand-in for the lover but sometimes it stands in for the wake, you know you have these chairs and people sit in these rooms with chairs and the coffin. A chair represents a mantle that you sit in, a seat of power traditionally in culture, when people got off the floor, the throne. So there’s all these different connotations with the chair. I realized I’ve been making chairs in my work for a while. When I was young I would say, “all sculptures are just men in chairs” and now of course I’m completely fascinated with them, so they obviously held some fascination or power with me as a young artist.”

Kiki Smith Open Window, Chair with Flowers 2008 Unique collage with ink, graphite, and lithograph on Nepalese paper

Image/paper size: 92 1/2 x 86 inches (235 x 218.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33109)

“I try to really be attentive to where my work wants to go and trust that it will take me some place that’s informative.”

Kiki Smith likes the bareness of colonial New England aesthetics and has explored the forms of chairs for many years. The women that she depicts are of all different ages and sometimes multiple ages. Oftentimes, Smith renders flowers at various stages of their life cycles, as well. Her subjects are grounded in daily living or historic narratives and yet they can become fantastical. In “Open Window, Chair with Flowers,” the bouquet placed on an otherwise unused chair is juxtaposed with an open window. The window is formed, piecemeal, so as to create a series of interlocking rectangles that make it hard to recognize which pane of glass is in front of which other pane. The symbolism of the different elements is open-ended, the ‘feel’ of the scenario is particular and yet it is not just a scene, an image on paper, but an object to behold: The flowers are collaged on the chair; the paper on which the chair is situated, is attached to the paper on which the window is assembled. The objects (pieces of Nepalese paper) on which there are depictions of other objects (chair, flowers, window) are as significant as the images. Physical reality, depiction, and imagination are in balance.

“I really like the chair as a stand-in for the lover but sometimes it stands in for the wake, you know you have these chairs and people sit in these rooms with chairs and the coffin. A chair represents a mantle that you sit in, a seat of power traditionally in culture, when people got off the floor, the throne. So there’s all these different connotations with the chair. I realized I’ve been making chairs in my work for a while. When I was young I would say, “all sculptures are just men in chairs” and now of course I’m completely fascinated with them, so they obviously held some fascination or power with me as a young artist.”

Kiki Smith Open Window, Chair with Flowers 2008 Unique collage with ink, graphite, and lithograph on Nepalese paper

Image/paper size: 92 1/2 x 86 inches (235 x 218.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33109)

“I try to really be attentive to where my work wants to go and trust that it will take me some place that’s informative.”

Kiki Smith likes the bareness of colonial New England aesthetics and has explored the forms of chairs for many years. The women that she depicts are of all different ages and sometimes multiple ages. Oftentimes, Smith renders flowers at various stages of their life cycles, as well. Her subjects are grounded in daily living or historic narratives and yet they can become fantastical. In “Open Window, Chair with Flowers,” the bouquet placed on an otherwise unused chair is juxtaposed with an open window. The window is formed, piecemeal, so as to create a series of interlocking rectangles that make it hard to recognize which pane of glass is in front of which other pane. The symbolism of the different elements is open-ended, the ‘feel’ of the scenario is particular and yet it is not just a scene, an image on paper, but an object to behold: The flowers are collaged on the chair; the paper on which the chair is situated, is attached to the paper on which the window is assembled. The objects (pieces of Nepalese paper) on which there are depictions of other objects (chair, flowers, window) are as significant as the images. Physical reality, depiction, and imagination are in balance.

“I really like the chair as a stand-in for the lover but sometimes it stands in for the wake, you know you have these chairs and people sit in these rooms with chairs and the coffin. A chair represents a mantle that you sit in, a seat of power traditionally in culture, when people got off the floor, the throne. So there’s all these different connotations with the chair. I realized I’ve been making chairs in my work for a while. When I was young I would say, “all sculptures are just men in chairs” and now of course I’m completely fascinated with them, so they obviously held some fascination or power with me as a young artist.”

Kiki Smith Open Window, Chair with Flowers 2008 Unique collage with ink, graphite, and lithograph on Nepalese paper

Image/paper size: 92 1/2 x 86 inches (235 x 218.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33109)

“I try to really be attentive to where my work wants to go and trust that it will take me some place that’s informative.”

Kiki Smith likes the bareness of colonial New England aesthetics and has explored the forms of chairs for many years. The women that she depicts are of all different ages and sometimes multiple ages. Oftentimes, Smith renders flowers at various stages of their life cycles, as well. Her subjects are grounded in daily living or historic narratives and yet they can become fantastical. In “Open Window, Chair with Flowers,” the bouquet placed on an otherwise unused chair is juxtaposed with an open window. The window is formed, piecemeal, so as to create a series of interlocking rectangles that make it hard to recognize which pane of glass is in front of which other pane. The symbolism of the different elements is open-ended, the ‘feel’ of the scenario is particular and yet it is not just a scene, an image on paper, but an object to behold: The flowers are collaged on the chair; the paper on which the chair is situated, is attached to the paper on which the window is assembled. The objects (pieces of Nepalese paper) on which there are depictions of other objects (chair, flowers, window) are as significant as the images. Physical reality, depiction, and imagination are in balance.

“I really like the chair as a stand-in for the lover but sometimes it stands in for the wake, you know you have these chairs and people sit in these rooms with chairs and the coffin. A chair represents a mantle that you sit in, a seat of power traditionally in culture, when people got off the floor, the throne. So there’s all these different connotations with the chair. I realized I’ve been making chairs in my work for a while. When I was young I would say, “all sculptures are just men in chairs” and now of course I’m completely fascinated with them, so they obviously held some fascination or power with me as a young artist.”

Kiki Smith Flowers with Bee (A-F) 2000 Set of six etchings

Edition of 18
Image/plate size: 8 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches each (22.5 x 20 cm each)
Paper size: 16 1/8 x 14 inches each (41 x 35.6 cm each)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left on each sheet in graphite
(Inventory #33237)

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Kiki Smith Untitled (Woman and Snake with pencil) 2003 Porcelain with pencil

Edition of 13
10 1/2 x 4 x 3 inches (26.7 x 10.2 x 7.6 cm)
Engraved KS 2003 5/13 on bottom
(Inventory #31158)

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Kiki Smith Snowflake Drawing #1 1997 Silver argent on paper

Paper size: 20 x 24 1/2 inches (50.8 x 62.2 cm)
Frame size: 23 1/4 x 27 5/8 inches (59.1 x 70.2 cm)
Signed and dated on reverse in graphite
(Inventory #33105)

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Kiki Smith Promising 2018 Lithograph with silkscreen and foil

Edition of 28
Image/paper size: 39 1/4 x 29 3/4 inches (99.7 x 75.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #32623)

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Kiki Smith Homecoming 2008 Intaglio with handcoloring

Edition of 30
Image size: 14 7/8 x 21 7/8 inches (37.8 x 55.6 cm)
Paper size: 21 x 28 inches (53.3 x 71.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #33125)

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Kiki Smith with adapted text by Sister Juana de la Cruz The Blue Feet 2003 Eight page book of cut-and-folded etching and drypoint

9 x 6 inches folded
18 7/16 x 25 1/4 inches unfolded
Edition of 35
Signed and numbered on colophon page
(Inventory #30481)

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Kiki Smith Litter 1999 Lithograph with platinum-leaf additions on mold-made Arches paper with deckled edge

Edition of 50
Image/Paper size: 22 x 30 inches (56 x 76 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #33624)

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Kiki Smith Pulse 2020 Frottage with hand additions, silkscreen and foil on Kitakata paper with deckled edge

Edition of 29
Paper size: 20 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches (52.7 x 42.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #32639)

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Kiki Smith Untitled 1991 High-fired enamel on glass, with wood shelf

Glass size: 18 x 18 inches (45.7 x 45.7 cm)
Edition of 50
Signature and edition number etched in glass lower right
(Inventory #28972)

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Kiki Smith Goats in Trees 2021 Etching with Chine-collé on Rives BFK paper with deckled edge

Edition of 18
Image size: 8 1/2 x 11 5/8 inches (21.6 x 29.5 cm)
Paper size: 13 x 15 1/2 inches (33 x 39.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #32979)

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Kiki Smith Blue Bird 2010/2019 Monoprint with hand-applied pencil and watercolor stamp on Losiny Prague paper

Image/paper size: 12 x 8 inches (30.5 x 20.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #31770)

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Kiki Smith Dog 2020 Monoprint with hand-applied pencil and watercolor stamp on Losiny Prague paper

Paper size: 8 1/4 x 11 7/8 inches (21 x 30.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #31773)

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Kiki Smith Looking Forward 2019 Monoprint with hand-applied watercolor stamp and graphite rubbing on Losiny Prague paper

Image/paper size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (29.2 x 21 cm)
Signed and dated lower center in graphite
(Inventory #32225)

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Kiki Smith Looking West I 2012 Monoprint with hand-applied pencil, watercolor stamp, and glitter on Losiny Prague paper

Paper size: 11 1/2 x 8 inches (29.2 x 20.3 cm)
Signed and dated
(Inventory #32228)

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Kiki Smith Heart in Hand 2015 Monoprint with hand-applied watercolor stamp on Losiny Prague paper

Paper size: 11 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches (29.2 x 20 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #32367)

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Kiki Smith Ave 2000 Lithograph, collage and wax stamp on paper

Edition of 230
Paper size: 20 x 29 1/2 inches (50.8 x 75 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #32673)

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Kiki Smith When the Night Moves 2022 Etching with handcoloring on hahnemühle paper deckled edge

Edition of 18
Image/plate size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29.2 x 21.6 cm)
Paper size: 18 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (46.4 x 36.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #34352)

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Kiki Smith The Sky’s Shadow 2022 Etching with handcoloring on hahnemühle paper deckled edge

Edition of 18
Image/plate size: 11 9/16 x 8 9/16 inches (29.4 x 21.7 cm)
Paper size: 18 1/8 x 14 5/8 inches (46 x 37.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #34354)

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Kiki Smith Prelude 2021 Etching on Rives BFK paper with deckled edge

Edition of 18
Image size: 4 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (12.1 x 18.7 cm)
Paper size: 9 1/4 x 11 3/8 inches (23.5 x 28.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #32949)

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Kiki Smith Sunray 2021 Etching on Rives BFK paper with deckled edge

Edition of 18
Image size 6 x 4 1/8 inches (15.2 x 10.5 cm)
Paper size: 11 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches (29.2 x 23.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #32950)

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Kiki Smith Little Squirrel 2022 Etching on Hahnemuhle paper with deckled edge

Edition of 18
Image size: 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (20 x 14.9 cm)
Paper size: 12 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (32.7 x 25.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #33728)

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Kiki Smith Big Squirrel 2022 Etching on Hahnemuhle paper with deckled edge

Edition of 18
Image size: 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (19.7 x 14.6 cm)
Paper size: 12 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (32.7 x 25.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #33729)

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Kiki Smith Catchers III 2018 Intaglio, photogravure and engraving on Hahnemühle hand torn paper

Image/plate size: 11 x 8 inches (27.9 x 20.3 cm)
Paper size: 16 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches (41.9 x 33.7 cm)
Edition of 18
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #30101)

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Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond August 2020 Monoprint with watercolor printed vegetables on Kitikata paper

Edition of 16
Image size: 9 x 5 inches (22.9 x 12.7 cm)
Paper size: 20 5/8 x 16 1/2 inches (52.4 x 41.9 cm)
Signed by both artists, dated and numbered, lower recto
(Inventory #32426)