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 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 ...

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 ...

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/Hannah Wilke: Erotic Abstraction" is on view at Acquavella Gallery in New York City until June 18, 2021. Installation shot of Wilke’s work. Courtesy of Acquavella Galleries. Courtesy of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...