Kiki Smith poses next to her artwork at the 'Monnaie de Paris' on October 17, 2019 in Paris, France. Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images.
“I really like that you just work really slowly,” she says of her printmaking process in particular, in an exclusive interview for Art21’s Extended Play series. “You build things up very slowly… I have to make about a million proofs of everything,” she says of her attempts to capture the nuances of human flesh using crosshatching and other techniques.
