The 17 thin slices of "Augment" (1968) are oriented on the floor like cold cuts packed for grocery shoppers, in a graded pile. Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland ...
Photograph of Eva Hesse, ca. 1969. Allen Memorial Art Museum, gift of Helen Hesse Charash, 1977 (all images courtesy AMAM, unless otherwise noted) OBERLIN, OH — “We like to think that we discovered ...
Her compositions by this time were dynamic and full of action, communicated through urgently scribbled and uninhibited forms that at times suggest windblown fields of wildflowers scattered among ...
Eva Hesse’s life story exudes drama. From escaping Nazi Germany at age two aboard one of the last Kindertransport trains bound for the Netherlands, to her emphatic break with the dominant mode of art ...
Pliable layers of natural latex rubber painted onto cheesecloth panels are buttressed with stiff fiberglass and polyester resin poles, forming an immense curtain that expands or contracts to conform ...
Eva Hesse (1936-1970) has long been recognized by artists and critics as a sculptor of exceptional talent and prodigious influence. The public has rarely seen her work, however, because its fragility ...
Eva Hesse's test pieces occupy a peripheral place in writings on the artist. As small as curios and variously shaped in latex, Sculp-metal, wire mesh, and wax, among other materials, they are ...
When an animal is trapped in resin, a bit of natural alchemy happens. The liquid begins to harden into an impenetrable shell. Life ends, but the creature is perfectly preserved. Under the right ...
Two exhibitions, one uptown at the Jewish Museum, organized by Elisabeth Sussman and Fred Wasserman, and the other downtown at the Drawing Center, organized by Sussman and Catherine de Zegher, honor ...
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