Jun 09 2009
Hannah Wilke @ MoMA and Centre Pompidou
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
April 22, 2009–January 4, 2010
Untitled
1963-66. Pastel and charcoal on paper, 19-1/2 x 24 inches
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift. © 2009 Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt – Hannah Wilke Collection and Archive, Los Angeles
Wilke’s experience of being a woman—bodily and socially—is at the heart of her work, from erotic sculptures made of latex and snaps to her works reflecting on illness, made while she was dying of cancer. This drawing from the 1960s includes imagery of genitals and upended backsides. Abstract but sexually suggestive shapes would become a hallmark of her later sculpture.
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Women artists in the collections of the Centre Pompidou
May 27, 2009 – May 24, 2010
Hannah Wilke
S.O.S. Starification Object Series:
An Adult Game of Mastication
Mastication Box
1974-1975
(detail)
Gift of the Centre Pompidou Foundation and Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles, 2007
© 2009 Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt – Hannah Wilke Collection and Archive, Los Angeles