Artist Registry


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Yvette Kaiser Smith
Chicago IL US
Updated: 2024-07-27 14:37:11

STATEMENT OF WORK

I am an artist who uses numbers. Employing sequences from numbers pi or e, I create wall-based geometric abstractions, where values of digits direct a composition’s formal structure: placement of line and shape, structure of a grid or pattern, and/or color relationships. I look for simple and direct ways to combine industrial felts with acrylic sheet scraps as slow stitching, a traditional craft element found across cultures and time, binds layers together. Recent works drift through multiple artforms in varying degrees. They combine languages of sculpture, embroidery, and weaving. They may allude to painting, drawing, or tapestry. Always straddling two worlds, the works reside on the periphery of established artforms. This I believe to be a consequence of immigrating when young, to perpetually float between two cultures, always residing in between, never fully of one or the other.

 

Most of 2024 focused on a series of laser-cut acrylic sheets separated by spacers.  Following a specific number sequence, where values of digits determine diameters of circles or ellipses, 3 or 4 sheets with a single, simple, geometric shape are stacked to create a community which connects or isolates individual forms.