Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is thrilled to announce the Walker Art Center's acquisition of Mimi Smith's television drawings Election Night Returns 2, 1976 and Please Get Up, 1977 Produced during the 1970s and1980s, Mimi Smith’s Television Drawings were created before the advent of 24-hour news channels and encapsulate the artist's desire to relate her work to her life and ours. She recalls, “I began to do these drawings because the constant information of the world invading my studio and home was not avoidable. However, I was still involved with the basic theory of relating my work to experiences in a society that are shared by many people.”