Shinique Smith

Many found objects, ranging from old fabrics and discarded picture frames to sneakers and T-shirts make up much of Baltimore-native Shinique Smith’s intriguing art. She sometimes incorporates street graffiti and Japan calligraphy in works that are at once commentary on public consumption and personal reflection. Such is the case with her captivating 2007 sculpture, a bull, a rose, a tempest, which she once described as part of a “big requiem.” The work incorporates memorabilia of deceased artists, including a T-shirt featuring the late rapper Tupac Shakur, who entered the Baltimore School of the Arts the same year she left it.