?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
SHINIQUE SMITH (1971 - ) A Single Breath.
Ink, acrylic and collage on paper, 2014. 247x196 mm; 9 3/4x7 3/4 inches. Signed and titled in pencil, lower edge.
Provenance: purchased from James Cohan Gallery, New York with gallery label on verso; collection of Martina Yamin; private collection.
This multimedia study by Shinique Smith displays both her knowledge of Japanese calligraphy and abstraction and the influence of artists in the Baltimore graffiti scene. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Smith's artistic training began in childhood, encouraged toward the creative arts by her mother, a fashion editor. She earned her BFA degree at Maryland Institute College of Art then worked as a customer and props assistant in the film industry. Smith returned to her studies and earned a Master of Arts degree in Education from Tufts University in 2000 and a MFA degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003.
In 2003, Smith moved to New York and participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's artist studio residency, where she began making sculptures and installations. Blending fine art media, text, and found textiles from thrift stores, she creates monumental yet graceful sculptures that investigate the interconnectivity of a global society and the transience of emotion.
Shinique Smith's artworks have been exhibited by and are in the permanent collections of many institutions; including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Denver Art Museum, the Frist Center for Visual Arts, the Minneapolis Art Institute, MoMA PS1, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Portrait Gallery, the New Museum, the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Shinique Smith received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award in 2013, The Maryland Institute College of Art's Alumni Medal of Honor in 2012, and a Joan Mitchell Prize in 2008.
