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News; Eva Hesse drawing exhibit at Oberlin College shows how her art triumphed over tragedies of a troubled life. Updated: ; Apr. 03, 2022, 10:30 a.m. | Published ...
OBERLIN, OH — “We like to think that we discovered Eva Hesse,” reads a line from a 1954 profile of the then-18-year-old artist in Seventeen magazine, before acknowledging that Hesse came on ...
Eva Hesse, born in Hamburg, Germany in 1936, ... Hesse's work is characterized by its organic shapes, tactile surfaces and the tension between fragility and strength.
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 ...
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 ...
On view at Hauser & Wirth, a small exhibition of the singular, short-lived artist’s late-career creations is a poor introduction for newcomers but a welcome capsule exhibition for those familiar ...
Eva Hesse and Expanded Expansion (1969). Installation view, Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials, ... More Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 19–July 6, 1969.
An icon of American art, Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) produced a prodigious body of work in the 1960s that collapsed disciplinary boundaries and forged innovative approaches to materials, forms and ...
Discussion topics include studying at Yale, Hesse's personality and Strand's life and work. Side 01 00:08:17-00:44:19 and Side 02 00:02:33-00:26:02 Tom Doyle, interviewed by Dodie Kazanjian, ...