Minimalism and Conceptual Art opened the way for a variety of experimental practices in different media.
c. 1965 - 1980
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Senga Nengudi, Linda Goode Bryant and the Just Above Midtown Gallery
Just Above Midtown Gallery, founded by Linda Goode Bryant, was a space of artistic experimentation and innovation for Black artists and artists of color in New York City.
Lynda Benglis – ‘Form and Texture Create the Magic’
The sculptures of Lynda Benglis express nature and feeling through their organic forms and textures.
Mario Merz, Giap’s Igloo
Giap’s Igloo by Mario Merz invites you to consider your actions, and how those actions contribute to our larger existence.
The last work of Eva Hesse
Hesse proves that powerful, emotionally charged art doesn't have to be pretty.
Alternative art spaces in New York City
Alternative art spaces created new paths and possibilities for art in the wake of modernism.
Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF)
Royal Chicano Air Force, blending humor, politics, and public art since the early 1970s
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party
Judy Chicago's landmark installation gives notable women from history a seat at the table.
Eleanor Antin, Carving: A Traditional Sculpture
The idea of sculpture was the subject of Antin’s work, which interrogates beauty, gender, and “traditional” art.
Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece)
This sculpture was hanging in the artist’s studio at the time of her death; it can be hung in numerous ways.
Jackie Winsor, #1 Rope
Women’s labor and the passage of time are evoked in this sculpture constructed of organic materials.
Eva Hesse, Untitled
Her friends were into high conceptualism, but Hesse’s own approach is more playful, bodily, and feminist.
Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document
Motherhood is explored and documented—but not sugarcoated—in Kelly’s five-year-long project.
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