Seated Nude
Artist: Kiki Smith (American, born 1954)
Date: 2005
Dimensions:
Overall: 66 15/16 × 18 1/8 × 14 15/16 in. (170 × 46 × 38 cm)
Base: 38 3/16 × 18 1/8 × 14 15/16 in. (97 × 46 × 38 cm)
Figure: 44 1/8 × 13 3/8 × 17 11/16 in.
Medium: Bronze with silver nitrate patina on painted wood base
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number: 2018.18
Label Text:"I think I chose the body as a subject, not consciously, but because it is the form we all share; which we all know from our own experience."
Kiki Smith has been known since the 1980s for her multidisciplinary practice relating to the human condition and the natural world. Seated Nude is part of the art historical tradition of the female nude, but Smith approaches it in a decidedly untraditional way. The figure, with her oversized head and seemingly boneless limbs, has a psychological presence as palpable as her physical form. This work, and others in which Smith explores the female body and its lived experience, extends from Smith’s conviction that the human body is universal and shared by all. As she states, "it's something that everybody has their own authentic experience with." Smith aims to bring the viewer to a moment of self-examination, to explore the relationship between the self and the body.
Kiki Smith has been known since the 1980s for her multidisciplinary practice relating to the human condition and the natural world. Seated Nude is part of the art historical tradition of the female nude, but Smith approaches it in a decidedly untraditional way. The figure, with her oversized head and seemingly boneless limbs, has a psychological presence as palpable as her physical form. This work, and others in which Smith explores the female body and its lived experience, extends from Smith’s conviction that the human body is universal and shared by all. As she states, "it's something that everybody has their own authentic experience with." Smith aims to bring the viewer to a moment of self-examination, to explore the relationship between the self and the body.
Not on view