witch artist

Artist kiki smith, daughter of the American sculptor Tony Smith, had an unorthodox upbringing in New Jersey. “There was a gravestone with our name in front of the house,” she said in 2003. “The kids would say I was a witch.”

Her father’s fascination with death, combined with her upbringing in the Catholic church, had an impact on her career trajectory as well: instead of elaborate, abstract forms, which were the hallmark of her father, she gravitated toward storytelling and began to develop complicated narratives for her work.