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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...