Hannah Wilke
10.2 x 81.3 x 81.3 cm, 4 x 32 x 32 in board
Further images
...""176 One-fold Gestural Sculptures" was not only the first time that Wilke placed her work directly on the floor, but also the beginning of a long passion for placing raw, glazed, and painted ceramics either on the floor or on painted plinths. "SWEET SIXTEEN" of 1977, for example, is a group of sixteen hot pink folds arranged in a grid on a white plinth like icing on a bithday cake. Luscious in appearance, its surfaces are flawless; Wilke often would dip her painted ceramics in thinned acrylic in order to achieve immaculate skin."
Provenance
Collection of the artist
By descent to Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt
Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles, USA
Exhibitions
Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, US, 4 June 2021 - 16 January 2022Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings, Tate St Ives, UK 10 February - 29 April 2018; travelled to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK 26 May - 16 September 2018; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, 2 October - 9 December 2018
Hannah Wilke: Sculpture 1960s-'80s, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK, 14 April - 29 May 2014
Hannah Wilke Gestures, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA, 2009
Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art By Women, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA, 1993
Transformations-Women in Art, 60s-70s, New York Coliseum, New York, USA, 1981
Publications
Schenkenberg, Tamara H. and Donna Wingate, eds. Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake. St. Louis / Princeton and Oxford: Pulitzer Arts Foundation / Princeton University Press, 2022. Illustrated in colour, cover and p. 152.
Tracy Fitzpatrick, Hannah Wilke Gestures (2009). Neuberger Museum of Art, Pages: Cover image, 25-26
Nancy Princenthal, Hannah Wilke, (2010), Munich: Prestel, Page: 29 “Transformations-Women in Art, 60s-70s,” New York Coliseum, 1981