Can I tell you about...Shinique Smith. Last Thursday April 5th, Shinique Smith invited me to her opening with fellow artist Mickalene Thomas at the Caren Golden Fine Art gallery (http://www.carengolden.com/) in Chelsea. I met Shinique last summer at the Hamptons Fund Raiser at Kimora and Russel Simmons estate and we immediately had connected. At the Fund Raiser, she and several artists had donated their art for a silent auction to raise funds. I liked her piece a lot, a collage of torn magazine pages forming a strong graphic statement. Unfortunately I lost to a higher bidder. These silent auctions can get real competitive and nasty!
Christine Y. Kim, my favorite Rafe Evangelist, promised to hook us up to collaborate for the Studio Museum in Harlem where she works and where she's cultivated Shinique's art as well. Here's what she had to say about the artist,"I can't think of a better artist for you to hightlight and possibly work with. Her drawings, paintings and sculptures are like visual poetry with volume and color. Always working and reworking the forms, and imagining and re-imagining their relation to the body and the viewer in space, her compositions are elegant, timely and some of the strongest work I've seen lately. She was included in "Frequency" (2005), which I co-curated with Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum, and has been showing actively in the past few years around the country".
As you can see, Shinique's art is multilayered, strong, graphic and exuberant, much like Shinique.
Mickalene's work was equally amusing. Pop portraits of Oprah and Condeleeza Rice.
Their features further emphasized with faceted crytals.
Outrageous and hilarious! Queen O should get the whole set. The exhibit will be on until May 12. Check it out.
Christine Y. Kim, my favorite Rafe Evangelist, promised to hook us up to collaborate for the Studio Museum in Harlem where she works and where she's cultivated Shinique's art as well. Here's what she had to say about the artist,"I can't think of a better artist for you to hightlight and possibly work with. Her drawings, paintings and sculptures are like visual poetry with volume and color. Always working and reworking the forms, and imagining and re-imagining their relation to the body and the viewer in space, her compositions are elegant, timely and some of the strongest work I've seen lately. She was included in "Frequency" (2005), which I co-curated with Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum, and has been showing actively in the past few years around the country".
As you can see, Shinique's art is multilayered, strong, graphic and exuberant, much like Shinique.
Mickalene's work was equally amusing. Pop portraits of Oprah and Condeleeza Rice.
Their features further emphasized with faceted crytals.
Outrageous and hilarious! Queen O should get the whole set. The exhibit will be on until May 12. Check it out.
