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
The ArtistMarsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt, by descent
Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles
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