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Jan 3, 2024 · Alexis Smith. Photo: Pauline Stella Sanchez. Alexis Smith, an artist whose work focused on the proliferation of images in society from the 1970s on, worked primarily in collage, but also produced artists’ books, installations and public artworks, including a permanent installation for the restaurant at the Getty Center in Los Angeles titled Taste (1997).
Alexis Smith is a multimedia artist known for her witty collages and assemblages that mine pop culture and pulp fiction to produce irreverent critiques of consumerism, advertising, and celebrity culture. Born and raised in Southern California, Smith considers herself a "product" of Hollywood. She pairs leftovers of tinsel town kitsch—recycled thrift-store book jackets, advertisements ...
Jan 3, 2024 · Alexis Smith, the clever, much-exhibited Southern California conceptual artist who winningly combined found images and smart phrases since the 1970s, died Tuesday morning at home in Los Angeles, according to her studio manager, Erin Calla Watson. She was 74 and had had Alzheimer’s disease since 2015.
Aug 25, 2022 · Smith’s visually familiar Men Seldom Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses (1985) features a large portrait of Marilyn Monroe wearing cat-eye sunglasses, with each lens containing a photo of ...
Alexis Smith, the clever, much-exhibited Southern California conceptual artist who winningly combined found images and smart phrases since the 1970s, has died. She was 74.
Alexis Smith's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 219 USD to 27,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record price for this artist at auction is 27,500 USD for Iron Sorrows, sold at Christie's New York in 2010. Alexis Smith has been featured in articles for Art ...
Jan 3, 2024 · Alexis Smith, the clever, much-exhibited Southern California conceptual artist who winningly combined found images and smart phrases since the 1970s, has died. She was 74.
