Eva Hesse at the opening reception for ‘Eccentric Abstraction,’ 1966 (photo by Norman Goldman, all images courtesy Zeitgeist Films) Telling the story of Eva Hesse’s life and work presents one major ...

In titling "Eva Hesse: Studiowork" at the Berkeley Art Museum, guest co-curator Briony Fer coined a new term to indicate the gray zone between avowed artworks and inchoate or abandoned efforts. Hesse ...

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 ...

As if she knew that her time on Earth would be brief, Eva Hesse worked diligently and prolifically. In 1972, two years after her death at age of 34, New York’s Guggenheim mounted a memorial exhibition ...

A comprehensive new documentary on Eva Hesse, one of the most innovative 1960s artists, will premiere in New York in April. Hesse’s Jewish family fled Nazi Germany in the 1940s and settled in New York ...

In 1969, the 33-year-old sculptor Eva Hesse destroyed many of her artworks. She had just been diagnosed with the brain tumor that would kill her the following year, and presumably the pieces she ...

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 ...

There are few figures who have captivated the imagination of the art world quite like Eva Hesse. She was an ambitious artist who found ways of using unusual materials, such as rope and latex, to ...

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 ...

There’s not been one normal thing in my life,” says Eva Hesse (her words read by Selma Blair) at the start of the documentary “Eva Hesse.” She was “different,” she says later in the film, “alone” ... ...

Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke, two of the most important artists of the late 20th century, have been brought together for the first time in a comparative study of their respective careers. This takes the ...

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