Patti Smith

One of my personal style icons......Patti Smith. 

Mapplethorpe 1979

Patti Smith: Camera Solo
Exhibition Dates: October 21, 2011 – February 19, 2012
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. 

The pioneering artist, musician, and poet, Patti Smith (b.1946) has made her mark on the American cultural landscape throughout her 40-year career, from her earliest explorations of artistic expression with friend and vanguard photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1960s and 70s to her profound influence on the nascent punk rock scene in the late 1970s and 80s.  This fall, we will premiere Patti Smith: Camera Solo, the first large-scale presentation of her visual work in the United States in nearly ten years.  The exhibition will include seventy photographs, one multi-media installation and one video work.