Shinique Smith was born in Baltimore, MD and lives and works in New York, NY. In an exhaustive effort to process and restore culture, Smith creates menageries that glom high and lowbrow expressions and bury them at the human center. Secondhand finds and neo-tribalism interact with Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Japanese calligraphy to create playful alterations between supertext and subtext, evoking the textile weaves of Smith’s oft-used materials themselves.
Working widely across painting, drawing, collage, video, and installation, Smith creates ecosystems of cooperative corporality. Shinique Smith takes physical stock of fibreculture and the possibilities of line.
