Hannah Wilke

the long version

This fully illustrated, color exhibition catalogue is produced in conjunction with the exhibition, Hannah Wilke: Gestures. The catalogue features works by Wilke, never before seen, as well as works not seen in over forty years. It contains a scholarly essay by exhibition curator Tracy Fitzpatrick, the transcript of a panel discussion held at the Neuberger Museum of Art between scholars Saundra Goldman, Tom Kochheiser, and Griselda Pollock on Wilke's art and legacy, and the first published chronology of Hannah Wilke's artistic practice. The exhibition, Hannah Wilke: Gestures, held at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, The State University of New York, between October 3, 2008 and January 25, 2009, included over sixty works by the artist. It began with a focused look at Wilke's early clay sculpture. It then considered the ways in which she expanded her use of sculptural gesture into a range of unusual sculptural materials along with photography, video, and performance art, or what Wilke referred to as "living sculpture." --Book Jacket.