Tag: texture

moca:

Hannah Wilke
White Plains, 1975
Voltex, Liquitex, and snaps
18 x 24 x 8 in. (45.7 x 61 x 20.3 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Gift of Ruth and Jacob Bloom

“It’s amazing to me that Wilke was making work like this at a time when the art world was dominated by cold, intellectual, impersonal works of minimalism and conceptual art, most of which were produced by male artists.”—Micol Hebron, artist and organizer, on White Plains, now on view at MOCA Grand Avenue.

LISTEN: Hebron discusses how teaching high school influenced “one of her art heroines.”