Finger-Paint on Finger-Paint Paper, 1981

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Cara Perlman, Kiki Smith, finger-paint on finger-paint paper, 1981
16 x 20 inches

Kiki Smith is an internationally recognized artist who has had solo show at the Museum of Modern Art , the Hirshhorn, and numerous other venues.  She worked as a cook at Tin Pan Alley in the early 1980s.

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Artist’s signature on back.
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Cara Perlman: Finger-Paint Portraits, Tin Pan Alley, 1981–82
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Perlman’s portraits, executed with a painting method typically used by children, fit broadly into the 1980s wave of neo-expressionism but they go way beyond that context.