Not on view
Date
1993–1994
Classification
Prints
Medium
Photogravure, aquatint, etching, and collage
Dimensions
Sheet (irregular): 58 × 30 5/16in. (147.3 × 77 cm) Image (irregular): 54 1/8 × 25 7/8in. (137.5 × 65.7 cm)
Accession number
2004.26
Edition
PP 1/5 | Ed. 35
Publication
Printed and published by Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc.
Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee
Rights and reproductions
co-copyright Kiki Smith and Universal Limited Art Editions
API
artworks/21231
Kiki Smith often uses elements of self-portraiture in her work, particularly in her prints. In the early 1980s, she asked artist David Wojnarowicz to photograph her in various poses, some of which were based on songs that she had written. Almost ten years later, Smith incorporated many of these photographs into the collage, Puppet. This composite also includes a photograph of the artist’s niece and etchings based on reproductions in a Dutch magazine article about nudist camps. Photography, drawing, and printmaking are interrelated in Puppet, as they are in other works by the artist. Smith is fluent in many media, and it often appears that her involvement with one material inspires or leads her to another.