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Alexis Smith (artist)
American artist (1949–2024)
Patricia Anne Smith (August 24, 1949 – January 2, 2024), known professionally as Alexis Smith, was an American visual artist.
She worked in collage and installation.[2]
Biography
Smith was born in Los Angeles on August 24, 1949.[3] Her 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.
"It was just off enough to be affecting," she later stated, "it had that edge of nonreality, of literal craziness".[4]
As a girl Smith created collages by cutting up and combining words and images.[4] It was only later that friends encouraged her to take art classes.
She studied with Vija Celmins and Robert Irwin at UC Irvine,[2] receiving her B.A. in 1970.[5] In college, she impulsively changed her name to Alexis Smith, the name of the Hollywood actress of the 1940s and