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 ...
Considered one of the most important figures in postminimalism, Eva Hesse (1936-1970) ushered in a new wave of art and style while working in New York City in the late 1950s and ’60s. Hesse was a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
University of California at Berkeley art historian Anne Wagner will give the 2002 Phyllis Wattis Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. April 25 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In "The Life of ...
Like visiting an aging parent after years away, going to an Eva Hesse show puts mortality on the mind. The materials of her late career—latex, fiberglass, rubber—decompose, becoming more brittle each ...
Glenn Spellman, a New York appraiser, treasure hunter, and art dealer, thought he had found something special last fall when he came across an abstract painting signed E.H. on the website for the ...
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