Kimberly J.B. Smith

Mixed Media Art & Sculpture

Art Works

I enjoy working in many mediums and mixing media.

The following categories indicate my best attempt at categorization.

Life is inspiration and inspiration is everywhere.

Sculptures

Nurture Nature (side 1)

Clay Mixed Media
6" x 8" x 9"
2019

Nurture Nature (side 2)

Clay Mixed Media
6" x 8" x 9"
2019

Bird Watching (side 1)

Mixed Media Sculpture
D 5" x W 13" x H 28"
2019

Bird Watching (side 2)

Mixed Media Sculpture
D 5" x W 13" x H 28"
2019

Hortus Sublimis (side a)

Mixed Media Sculpture joining East and West influences. Side #1

Hortus Sublimis (side b)

East meets West as inspiration.

Flying Dream - Clay mixed media

Clay & Mixed Media
Inspired by a dream & a causeway in Maine.
15 x 8 x 7"
2000

Vestments #1

Mixed Media Sculpture with British crumb tray & repurposed vestments create an abstract human form.
12 x 4 x 23"
2018

Vestments #2

Rear View
Velvet and fringe are repurposed religious items. Fish reference to the fisher of men. 2018

Smith - Blue Moo - A

Foam Core substrate, two sided farm scene with colorized cow photographs taken in Moultonboro, N.H.
3" x 11" x 11"

Smith - Blue Moo - B X

Side two of farm scene sculpture.

Three Bears Stone Sculpture

Title inspired by the name of a barn near my grandfather's house. Rocks from the coast of Maine. Photos are abstractions of clay sculptures seen in NYC.

Glass Balloons

Mixed Media Sculpture
L 18" W 18" H 14"
This work of art is an allegory, a symbolic representation of women's intention to break through the glass ceiling using a sewing tool (generally attributed to women).

Glass Balloons closeup

Detail shows antique manikin, headpiece composed of a re-purposed charm and antique button, glass balloons, mesh tutu

Silenced

Additive sculpture portrays what animosity looks like.

Moose Brook 1

Tomb shaped sculpture with reamer as finial and images from vintage post cards.

Daruma - Make a Wish - altered book

Crumb tray altered book featuring the Daruma wishing doll from Japan.

Water Meditation 1

Altered Book Sculpture
D 6" W 10" H 16"
Reference to fish in flowing stream, blue water and mandalas creates a meditative piece.

Water Meditation 2

Rear view: mandala imagery consisting of buttons and jar lids.

Apparel for Political Discourse

Mixed Media
5 x 9 1/2 x 15"
A reflection on the hostility in politics today.

Church Garden

Sculpture featuring two photographs of a church garden with painted detailing, buttons, rhinestones, antique reamer adorned with thread covered wire.

Mt. Chocorua front view

Post Cards of Mt. Chocorua and vintage flag bracket on foam core substrate.
2017
(private collection)

Blue Berry Dragonfly

Mixed Media Sculpture featuring a crumb tray and brush, photographs edited by the artist.
8 1/2 x 8 1/2"
2017

Blue Berry Dragonfly

Demens Draco (front)

Altered Book & Mixed Media
17 x 9 x 16"
2016

Demens Draco (rear)

Art & Zen

Altered Book & Repousse Pencil Tray create a Zen Garden
13 x 10 x 2 1/2"
2017
(private collection)

Aureus Piscari

Reimagined Russian Folk Tale
21 x 11 1/2 x 5"
2017

Aureus Piscari

Mixed Media
21 x 11 1/2 x 5"
Golden Fish folktale (rear)

Mothers Teach Your Daughters

About Money... 2016.
Altered Books with "La Femme" cash, board book piggy banks, tools and barbed wire.

Mothers Teach Your Daughters(detail)

Board Books, canvas piggy banks, "La Femme" cash, metals.

Three Waves

Tomb shaped altered book sculptures with sections of brass crumb tray brush. Brass waves and nod to Hokusai speak to the beauty of water and the 3 waves of feminism: political, economic and social.

Fur Introspection

Mixed Media (with a nod to Meret Oppenheim).
A reworked paperclip box - each section reveals a peek into the artist's personality.

Fur Introspection - Pink Heart

Outside compartments feature personality traits. The heart center is saccharine pink, shedding some irony on the introspection.

H.H. Holmes #5

Five sided altered book sculpture featuring excerpts from the life of the notorious serial killer.

Mervilleux

Antique box & art materials.
Mervilleux - a term used fondly by the Surrealists - making art creates the feeling of mervilleux in life.

You Want Pretty?

Created for those who desire pretty art.

You Want Pretty - side close up

Photos of decorative street grate become the decorative fence of the pretty garden. Substrate is a scored book cover. Vintage buttons serve as gate doorknobs.

Life Luck Shrine

Clay & Mixed Media
Self portrait surrounded by strong female role models.

Entelechy

Clay & Mixed Media
3D visualization of a walking with the family dog, through the fields - a spiritual experience.
Entelechy - a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.

Novalis

Clay & Mixed Media
Inspired by a novel by Henry Von Ofterdingen - in search of the blue flower (the unattainable).

Introspection

Clay & Mixed Media
A tongue in cheek view of intropsection - combination of brain images and phrenology text.

Exquisite Corpse

Clay & Mixed Media (puppet theater)
Exquisite Corpse - a parlour game played by Surrealists. Self portrait as overwhelmed by demands.

Manipulated By....

Clay & Mixed Media
Self portrait with a survey of self defeating mindsets.

Nurture Nature (side 1)

Clay Mixed Media
6" x 8" x 9"
2019

Nurture Nature (side 2)

Clay Mixed Media
6" x 8" x 9"
2019

Bird Watching (side 1)

Mixed Media Sculpture
D 5" x W 13" x H 28"
2019

Bird Watching (side 2)

Mixed Media Sculpture
D 5" x W 13" x H 28"
2019

Hortus Sublimis (side a)

Mixed Media Sculpture joining East and West influences. Side #1

Hortus Sublimis (side b)

East meets West as inspiration.

Flying Dream - Clay mixed media

Clay & Mixed Media
Inspired by a dream & a causeway in Maine.
15 x 8 x 7"
2000

Vestments #1

Mixed Media Sculpture with British crumb tray & repurposed vestments create an abstract human form.
12 x 4 x 23"
2018

Vestments #2

Rear View
Velvet and fringe are repurposed religious items. Fish reference to the fisher of men. 2018

Smith - Blue Moo - A

Foam Core substrate, two sided farm scene with colorized cow photographs taken in Moultonboro, N.H.
3" x 11" x 11"

Smith - Blue Moo - B X

Side two of farm scene sculpture.

Three Bears Stone Sculpture

Title inspired by the name of a barn near my grandfather's house. Rocks from the coast of Maine. Photos are abstractions of clay sculptures seen in NYC.

Glass Balloons

Mixed Media Sculpture
L 18" W 18" H 14"
This work of art is an allegory, a symbolic representation of women's intention to break through the glass ceiling using a sewing tool (generally attributed to women).

Glass Balloons closeup

Detail shows antique manikin, headpiece composed of a re-purposed charm and antique button, glass balloons, mesh tutu

Silenced

Additive sculpture portrays what animosity looks like.

Moose Brook 1

Tomb shaped sculpture with reamer as finial and images from vintage post cards.

Daruma - Make a Wish - altered book

Crumb tray altered book featuring the Daruma wishing doll from Japan.

Water Meditation 1

Altered Book Sculpture
D 6" W 10" H 16"
Reference to fish in flowing stream, blue water and mandalas creates a meditative piece.

Water Meditation 2

Rear view: mandala imagery consisting of buttons and jar lids.

Apparel for Political Discourse

Mixed Media
5 x 9 1/2 x 15"
A reflection on the hostility in politics today.

Church Garden

Sculpture featuring two photographs of a church garden with painted detailing, buttons, rhinestones, antique reamer adorned with thread covered wire.

Mt. Chocorua front view

Post Cards of Mt. Chocorua and vintage flag bracket on foam core substrate.
2017
(private collection)

Blue Berry Dragonfly

Mixed Media Sculpture featuring a crumb tray and brush, photographs edited by the artist.
8 1/2 x 8 1/2"
2017

Blue Berry Dragonfly

Demens Draco (front)

Altered Book & Mixed Media
17 x 9 x 16"
2016

Demens Draco (rear)

Art & Zen

Altered Book & Repousse Pencil Tray create a Zen Garden
13 x 10 x 2 1/2"
2017
(private collection)

Aureus Piscari

Reimagined Russian Folk Tale
21 x 11 1/2 x 5"
2017

Aureus Piscari

Mixed Media
21 x 11 1/2 x 5"
Golden Fish folktale (rear)

Mothers Teach Your Daughters

About Money... 2016.
Altered Books with "La Femme" cash, board book piggy banks, tools and barbed wire.

Mothers Teach Your Daughters(detail)

Board Books, canvas piggy banks, "La Femme" cash, metals.

Three Waves

Tomb shaped altered book sculptures with sections of brass crumb tray brush. Brass waves and nod to Hokusai speak to the beauty of water and the 3 waves of feminism: political, economic and social.

Fur Introspection

Mixed Media (with a nod to Meret Oppenheim).
A reworked paperclip box - each section reveals a peek into the artist's personality.

Fur Introspection - Pink Heart

Outside compartments feature personality traits. The heart center is saccharine pink, shedding some irony on the introspection.

H.H. Holmes #5

Five sided altered book sculpture featuring excerpts from the life of the notorious serial killer.

Mervilleux

Antique box & art materials.
Mervilleux - a term used fondly by the Surrealists - making art creates the feeling of mervilleux in life.

You Want Pretty?

Created for those who desire pretty art.

You Want Pretty - side close up

Photos of decorative street grate become the decorative fence of the pretty garden. Substrate is a scored book cover. Vintage buttons serve as gate doorknobs.

Life Luck Shrine

Clay & Mixed Media
Self portrait surrounded by strong female role models.

Entelechy

Clay & Mixed Media
3D visualization of a walking with the family dog, through the fields - a spiritual experience.
Entelechy - a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.

Novalis

Clay & Mixed Media
Inspired by a novel by Henry Von Ofterdingen - in search of the blue flower (the unattainable).

Introspection

Clay & Mixed Media
A tongue in cheek view of intropsection - combination of brain images and phrenology text.

Exquisite Corpse

Clay & Mixed Media (puppet theater)
Exquisite Corpse - a parlour game played by Surrealists. Self portrait as overwhelmed by demands.

Manipulated By....

Clay & Mixed Media
Self portrait with a survey of self defeating mindsets.

Mixed Media

Fructus 3

Mixed Media 9 x 18" includes 3 pears drawing, prints, handmade paper and objects.

Purple Wallpaper Collage

Mixed media 4 x 6, handmade paper, paper pulp, wallpaper and objects.

Velvet

Mixed media 6 x 12" including wallpaper, purple paper pulp and objects.

Drakon

Mixed media 6 x 12", including fabric, pulp, rhinestone necklace and oil paint.

Wisteria

Mixed Media 2014
Handmade paper, oil painting, wings, objects.

The Art Lesson

6 x 12" 2015
Includes oil paint tube from relative of long ago - artist & teacher, Grandma Bailey.

Child Life.jpg

Oil paint, paper pulp, wooden toys, objects.

Nature Machine.jpg

Oil paint, paper pulp, clock gears & objects.

Landscape With Bonbons.jpg

Paper pulp, oil paint, permanent marker & objects.

I Love America.jpg

Paper pulp, oil & objects.

Hands Flower.jpg

Oil & collaged hands.

Chauffeur's License

Wallpaper, paper pulp, oil paint & objects.

Three Irises

Frottage (rubbings) & collage.

Jeweled Papillon

Oil paint, paper pulp, wings & objects.

Fuchsia

Wallpaper, paper pulp, permanent marker, stencils & objects.

Fructus 3

Mixed Media 9 x 18" includes 3 pears drawing, prints, handmade paper and objects.

Purple Wallpaper Collage

Mixed media 4 x 6, handmade paper, paper pulp, wallpaper and objects.

Velvet

Mixed media 6 x 12" including wallpaper, purple paper pulp and objects.

Drakon

Mixed media 6 x 12", including fabric, pulp, rhinestone necklace and oil paint.

Wisteria

Mixed Media 2014
Handmade paper, oil painting, wings, objects.

The Art Lesson

6 x 12" 2015
Includes oil paint tube from relative of long ago - artist & teacher, Grandma Bailey.

Child Life.jpg

Oil paint, paper pulp, wooden toys, objects.

Nature Machine.jpg

Oil paint, paper pulp, clock gears & objects.

Landscape With Bonbons.jpg

Paper pulp, oil paint, permanent marker & objects.

I Love America.jpg

Paper pulp, oil & objects.

Hands Flower.jpg

Oil & collaged hands.

Chauffeur's License

Wallpaper, paper pulp, oil paint & objects.

Three Irises

Frottage (rubbings) & collage.

Jeweled Papillon

Oil paint, paper pulp, wings & objects.

Fuchsia

Wallpaper, paper pulp, permanent marker, stencils & objects.

Altered Books

She

Fused board book with feminine elements.

Fragile Nature - Lily of the Valley

Book as substrate, my photo with my edits, wooden finial, hardware.

Fragile Nature - Acorn, 2018

Book as substrate, actual acorns and seeds, replaced broken branches with thread covered wire. I like it more now than the original.

Altered Book - Kim

Repurposed book by Rudyard Kipling.

Leather Nature

Stacey's Party, 2017

Altered Book with antique French wallpaper, nest, stone eggs, metal leaves.

Three Beauties

Vintage Floral Images

Garden 2015

Fructus 1

Altered board book including fruit drawing, printed handmade paper, crayon and objects.

Altered Book - secret compartment

Interior hiding space

Brendan's books

Antique Book Strap

Gold N Red

Odoribus Imbuere 2017

For a perfumer. Altered book with Bal a Versailles in niche, animal print fabric, satin and trinkets.

Heaven, 2017.

Altered Book with photo taken from airplane, prayer beads, pearly gate.

Modern Marriage 2015

She

Fused board book with feminine elements.

Fragile Nature - Lily of the Valley

Book as substrate, my photo with my edits, wooden finial, hardware.

Fragile Nature - Acorn, 2018

Book as substrate, actual acorns and seeds, replaced broken branches with thread covered wire. I like it more now than the original.

Altered Book - Kim

Repurposed book by Rudyard Kipling.

Leather Nature

Stacey's Party, 2017

Altered Book with antique French wallpaper, nest, stone eggs, metal leaves.

Three Beauties

Vintage Floral Images

Garden 2015

Fructus 1

Altered board book including fruit drawing, printed handmade paper, crayon and objects.

Altered Book - secret compartment

Interior hiding space

Brendan's books

Antique Book Strap

Gold N Red

Odoribus Imbuere 2017

For a perfumer. Altered book with Bal a Versailles in niche, animal print fabric, satin and trinkets.

Heaven, 2017.

Altered Book with photo taken from airplane, prayer beads, pearly gate.

Modern Marriage 2015

Commissions & Tributes

Arizona Desert

Commissioned for a couple who love books and live in Arizona.

Arizona Desert

Interior of altered book with desert theme.

Letters To My Family

Two sided sculpture features a crumb tray decoration, a hollowed out book that holds letters to my family - my hopes and dreams for them.

Letters To My Family side 2

Abstract garden imagery with family photos.

Family Diorama

Matriarch in center surrounded by children, husband and quotes from husband's speech.

Altered Book - Claudia

High School graduation gift.

EHB (inside pop up book)

Pop Up Book - biographical subject.

DBLifton Altered Book

DBLifton altered book

Artist and sister...

H.H. Holmes #3

Board book substrate with 5 vignettes. Featuring the life of the infamous killer H.H. Holmes who grew up in Gilmanton, N.H.

Hart Family Altered Book

Includes family memorabilia and horse imagery.

Arizona Desert

Commissioned for a couple who love books and live in Arizona.

Arizona Desert

Interior of altered book with desert theme.

Letters To My Family

Two sided sculpture features a crumb tray decoration, a hollowed out book that holds letters to my family - my hopes and dreams for them.

Letters To My Family side 2

Abstract garden imagery with family photos.

Family Diorama

Matriarch in center surrounded by children, husband and quotes from husband's speech.

Altered Book - Claudia

High School graduation gift.

EHB (inside pop up book)

Pop Up Book - biographical subject.

DBLifton Altered Book

DBLifton altered book

Artist and sister...

H.H. Holmes #3

Board book substrate with 5 vignettes. Featuring the life of the infamous killer H.H. Holmes who grew up in Gilmanton, N.H.

Hart Family Altered Book

Includes family memorabilia and horse imagery.

Arizona Desert

Commissioned for a couple who love books and live in Arizona.