Karinne Smith transforms the peripheral objects of everyday life as an invitation to linger in the mysticism of the mundane. Her work encompasses a wide range of media, including painting, performance, writing, and sculpture. Each piece carries the impression of some other time or place, now absent; a haunting somehow both familiar, yet strange. This tension between congruity and splitting is what defines her works as Smith bends our vision to a world somehow both ignored and omnipresent, a mirage which can only arise in the stillness of the ordinary.

Karinne Smith (b. Los Angeles, CA) holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University, New Haven, CT. Recent exhibitions include her solo exhibition,West Follies, at Caravan Gallery in Fort Worth, Texas (2025); Veronica, Veronica at Hesse Flatow in New York City (2025); Shapeshifting: Or , Synonyms for Skin at the Hessel Museum of Art (2023); Viscera at Simone Subal Gallery in NYC (2022); and her solo exhibition, Melon Skin, at M23 Gallery in NYC (2021).