When an animal is trapped in resin, a bit of natural alchemy happens. The liquid begins to harden into an impenetrable shell. Life ends, but the creature is perfectly preserved. Under the right ...

The Art Students League of New York is hosting a new exhibition, Anna Walinska and Her Circle from February 18 through May 24, at 215 W 57th St Suite 1 (Lobby Gallery) in New York City. LAUNCH Gallery ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eva Hesse first became known in the New York art world of the 1960s by making colorful abstract-expressionist paintings, but it was her departure from the art scene and a lengthy return to her native ...

Sculpture can tell us a lot about the surface of things. Classical sculpture tells us how a muscle flexes, how a robe folds over a knee, how breasts sit on a body. Modern sculpture can do more: ...

The frequently used term ``minimalist'' doesn't really fit the most provocative of Hesse's disturbing sculptures. Long Life , for instance, conjures a womb with an umbilical cord--or is it a bomb with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...