Twilight’s Compendium by Shinique Smith
2009
Acrylic paint, collage, ink, fabric, dye, ribbon, and rope
Patrons: Arlene and Barry Hirschfeld, Sarah Lonsdale and Jim Taylor
Much of Shinique Smith’s work is related to her own body—through the motion of painting or binding objects, applying paint with her arms and legs, or using clothing that she has worn—and Twilight’s Compendium is no exception.
I started to know that I wanted to use my body to make marks on the wall…I wanted to really embrace the space, embrace it physically…It was really hard because of the angle of the wall. The ladder leans away from the wall, and the wall is leaning the other way. All the different angles—there was a lot of stretching and pulling and contorting trying to press myself on the wall.
Look for Smith’s painting in the temporary exhibition gallery on level two of the Hamilton Building. The work was executed with help from Mardee Goff
© Shinique Smith. Photos by Jeff Wells.
Meet the Artist
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1971, Shinique Smith currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in 1992 from the Maryland Institute College of Art, an MA in teaching from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2000, and returned to the Maryland Institute College of Art to complete her MFA in 2003. She has also participated in studio residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, the Henry Street Settlement in New York, and the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. Smith’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including at such institutions as the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum in Berlin. She is in the public collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Denver Art Museum. She is represented by the Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York.
Photo of the artist by Marc Piscotty.
Recent Work
And, she has a bowl of lilacs in her room, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert Paris, New York. Photo: Kathryn Hillier.
Favorite of the Gods, 2008. Ink, acrylic, fabric, urban debris, feathers and collage on canvas over wood; 2 panels, 96 x 120 x 3 in. overall. © Shinique Smith. Courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert Paris, New York. Photo: Stephen Brayn
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