| Description |
Although best known as a photographer and a performance artist, Hannah Wilke (1940-1993) began her career as a sculptor working in ceramics, a practice that was the foundation for all other aspects of her artistic practice. Hannah Wilke: Gestures, traces the ways in which the artist’s expanded notion of sculpture threads through diverse aspects of her body of work. Beginning with a focused look at Wilke’s early sculpture, box sculptures and the gestural objects. It considers the way in which Wilke’s complex conception of sculpture fed the development of her living sculptures, video, and performance art. |