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, “The first money I made for my artwork” (n.d.) (image via Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College) How important is it to control one’s image, to have mastery over one’s oeuvre? As a ...
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 ...
(featuring artists Michael Todd, Ethelyn Honig, Nancy Holt and writer Lucy Lippard; Hesse’s journals voiced by Selma Blair; clip courtesy of evahessedoc.com) “Her life had been absurd, her life at ...
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 explores an artist whose life was in dynamic interplay with the development of her ground-breaking work. As the wild ride of the 1960’s came to a close, Eva Hesse, the 34-year-old ...
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 ...
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