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May 17, 2016 · Hesse’s sculpture was included in three group exhibitions at The Jewish Museum in the late 1960s, and was the subject of a solo exhibition, Eva Hesse: Sculpture here in 2006 as well as a group show in 2011 Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism.
Born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany, Hesse and her family fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. in 1939. Hesse studied in New York City and at the Yale School of Art and Architecture. A year after her first solo exhibition, German collector Arnhard Scheidt invited Hesse and her husband Tom Doyle to spend a year in Kettwig-am-Ruhr ...
Repetition Nineteen III was one of the first sculptures in which Hesse used fiberglass, a material that quickly became her favorite to work with. Like many artists of her generation, she explored repetition but, unlike her peers, she did not adhere to uniformity. None of these bucket-like forms are exactly alike, nor do they have a set order.
May 25, 2024 · Eva Hesse (born January 11, 1936, Hamburg, Germany—died May 29, 1970, New York, New York, U.S.) was a German-born American painter and sculptor known for using unusual materials such as rubber tubing, fibreglass, synthetic resins, cord, cloth, and wire. Hesse had a prolific yet short career, and her influence since her death at age 34 has ...
Nov 13, 2023 · Many of the book’s key protagonists were active in the 1970s, like Hannah Wilke, Eva Hesse, and Carolee Schneemann. A New Book, ‘Art Monsters,’ Shows How Feminism Impacted Form
Lauren Elkin. Chatto & Windus, pp. 336, £25. Lauren Elkin begins her book about bodily art with a charming ode to the punctuation mark that she in American English calls a ‘slash’ and we in ...
Nov 13, 2023 · Many of the book’s key protagonists were active in the 1970s, like Hannah Wilke, Eva Hesse, and Carolee Schneemann. A New Book, ‘Art Monsters,’ Shows How Feminism Impacted Form
