Of Origin And Longing - Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX • photography by VMBEE, 2020

Mica Lilith Smith is a visual artist and educator. Smith earned her MFA from the University of Cincinnati College of DAAP in 2012. Her work is comprised of fabric installations, paintings, works on paper, and video. Smith currently lives and makes work in Lubbock, TX.

STATEMENT:

I am captivated by origin stories of trans womanhood – how these histories of becoming-ness and being have often faced eradication through oppressive forces and how trans women continually strive to uphold and celebrate their personal narratives of embodiment. My work calls to formalistic cues that imbue soft, haven-like configurations while also using such elements to arrive at images that are, at times, foreboding and cacophonous. My aims are to create works that evoke intimacy and sensual memory through a trans female lens while touching on the complexities of my own embodiment as a woman of trans experience living in the south.