19 Mar 2009 to 18 Apr 2009
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Patti Smith, Veil, 2008 Gelatin silver print, 10 x : 8 in / 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Robert Miller Gallery is very pleased to present Veil, an exhibition by Patti Smith. The exhibition includes new works in photography, film, drawing and installation. Smith has been exhibiting her work at Robert Miller for over three decades. An artist, poet, performer and cultural icon, Patti Smith’s passionate engagement with the world has led her to diverse forms of expression. However diverse the forms, whether in images, words, or music, they remain intricately connected. Her subjects and themes are simultaneously, or by turns, political, spiritual and metaphysical. Smith’s oeuvre encompasses irreverence and solemnity, defiance and tenderness, the elegiac and the celebratory, constantly returning to homage to her creative heroes.
Smith began as a visual artist and has been making drawings and taking photographs since her days as an art student in the late 1960’s. In recent years her practice has expanded to include installation. A series of photographs recently made in the Basque region of Spain has inspired a new installation that will be featured in this exhibition. The exhibition also includes recent photographs, new drawings and several rarely seen earlier works on paper. Smith’s film, Rene Daumal, 2008, with camera work by long time collaborator Jem Cohen will receive its New York debut.
Born in 1946 in Chicago, Smith was recently the subject of Patti Smith Land 250 at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporaine, Paris, and Written Portrait - Patti Smith at Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith, was organized by The Andy Warhol Museum in 2005 and traveled to numerous venues including the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and the Museum Boijsman Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Her work has also been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum Eki, Kyoto, Haus der Kunst, Munich, the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels and the Pompidou Center in Paris. Patti Smith’s most recent book of poetry Auguries of Innocence, was published by Ecco press in 2005. Her 1975 album Horses, established Patti Smith as one of most original and important musical artists of her generation. She continues to perform throughout the world and in 2007 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In July of 2005 she was presented with the prestigious insignia of Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters, an esteemed French cultural honor. Patti Smith: Dream of Life, a documentary film by fashion photographer and filmmaker Steven Sebring, was released by Palm Pictures in September of 2008. She lives and works in New York.
