Julia Kim Smith

domesticated beauty

Domesticated Beauty challenges the line between art and craft and creates quietly subversive domestic objects that reference art history and the contemporary DIY craft movement, including Damien Hirst, Tang Dynasty sculpture, Méret Oppenheim, Janine Antoni, and Martha Stewart.
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Domesticated Beauty: For The Love Of Wonder (Day 3) — Wonder Bread
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Domesticated Beauty: For The Love Of Wonder (Day 2) — Wonder Bread
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Domesticated Beauty: For The Love Of Wonder (Day 1) — Wonder Bread
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Domesticated Beauty: Battleship In A Crack Vial — Toy battleship, crack vial
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Domesticated Beauty: Orange Tang — Tang reproductions, spray paint
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Domesticated Beauty: Welcome — Fur, wreath frame
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Domesticated Beauty: Light And Lather — Beeswax, soap

Title
domesticated beauty

Year
2013

Medium
various

Exhibition History

  • A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
    Transformed Viewpoints, A.I.R. National & International Exhibition, Curator: Charlotta Kotik, Curator Emerita of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum
  • A.I.R. ReFreshed
    Ground Flour Gallery, Nashville, TN; Curator: Janet Decker Yanez, A.I.R. Gallery National Artist; 2014
    ADORE, San Francisco, CA; Curators: Maya Koenig, Director, and Paula Everitt, A.I.R. Gallery National Artist; 2014
    The Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Curators: Dana Lichtstrahl, Director, and Paula Everitt, A.I.R. Gallery National Artist; 2015
    Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2015
    Governors Island, New York, NY, 2015

Press

  • Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian, “ArtRx NYC: Transformed Viewpoints,” February 2015
  • BurnAway, Erica Ciccarone, “NYC’s A.I.R. Gallery Appears At Nashville’s Ground Floor Gallery,” October 2014

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