MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series will feature Shinique Smith’s first large-scale U.S. museum exhibition. Smith will use MOCA’s flexible gallery space to explore new ways of working and installing her work, weaving a line both physically and figuratively throughout the space. Since bursting onto the scene in 2000, this New York-based artist has produced works that combine complex social and cultural references with a broad array of art historical sources, including African American art, color field painting, minimal sculpture and Jap... Read more

MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series will feature Shinique Smith’s first large-scale U.S. museum exhibition. Smith will use MOCA’s flexible gallery space to explore new ways of working and installing her work, weaving a line both physically and figuratively throughout the space. Since bursting onto the scene in 2000, this New York-based artist has produced works that combine complex social and cultural references with a broad array of art historical sources, including African American art, color field painting, minimal sculpture and Japanese calligraphy. Her sculpture and installations are composed of collections and accumulations of found objects and second-hand clothing, which she ties together to form minimal cubes or wraps into bulbous bundles. Urban life is suggested both in her sculptures of castoffs as well as the graffiti-like gestures of her exuberant paintings.