Hannah Wilke
Untitled, c.1966
Pastel, graphite on brown paper bag
24.4 x 22.9 cm, 9 5/8 x 9 in, framed
© Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles. Licensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York, DACs, London
1. The drawings from the 1960s bear resemblance to the paintings of Abstract Expressionists such as Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), with his biomorphic forms and floating fields of colour. Mark the...
1. The drawings from the 1960s bear resemblance to the paintings of Abstract Expressionists such as Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), with his biomorphic forms and floating fields of colour. Mark the beginning of Wilke’s interest in movement.
2. Abstraction/ suffused it with bodily connotations.
3. HW notes Abstract Expressionism and the use of colour: ‘Because I grew up in the fifties and sixties, I appreciated Abstract Expressionism, the de Koonings, the Pollock gestures, the enormous saturation that one feels through colour. I feel sexual impulses from various colours; I think we even dream in colour, have sexual experiences in colour.’ (Hannah Wilke in conversation with Cindy Nemser, 1975, as published in Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake)
commercial gallery show:
Of the Surface of Things, Alison Jacques, London, UK, 24 February - 30 April 2022
2. Abstraction/ suffused it with bodily connotations.
3. HW notes Abstract Expressionism and the use of colour: ‘Because I grew up in the fifties and sixties, I appreciated Abstract Expressionism, the de Koonings, the Pollock gestures, the enormous saturation that one feels through colour. I feel sexual impulses from various colours; I think we even dream in colour, have sexual experiences in colour.’ (Hannah Wilke in conversation with Cindy Nemser, 1975, as published in Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake)
commercial gallery show:
Of the Surface of Things, Alison Jacques, London, UK, 24 February - 30 April 2022
Provenance
The Artist
Estate of Hannah Wilke
By descent to Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt
Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles