Background
Smith, Alexis was born on August 24, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Dayrel Driver and Lucille Lloyd (Doak) Smith.
Smith, Alexis was born on August 24, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Dayrel Driver and Lucille Lloyd (Doak) Smith.
She studied with Vija Celmins and Robert Irwin at University of California Irvine, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in 1970.
Smith"s father was a psychiatrist and she spent her childhood years living first on a citrus grove in Covina, California and then on the grounds of a mental hospital. "lieutenant was just off enough to be affecting," she later stated, "it had that edge of nonreality, of literal craziness". As a girl Smith created collages by cutting up and combining words and images.
lieutenant was only later that friends encouraged her to take art classes.
Smith"s work has been exhibited at major museums including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art Center, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. She has collaborated with Poet Amy Gerstler on several installations, including "Past Lives" at the Santa Monica Museum of Artist
Quotations: "lieutenant was just off enough to be affecting,".
Member artist advisory county Los Angeles Museum Contemporary Art, 1979-1990. Trustee Beyond Baroque Literature Arts Center, 1990-1995. Board of Governors Skowhegan School, 1990-1993.
Married Scott Grieger, June 11, 1990.