The idea of sculpture was the subject of Antin’s work, which interrogates beauty, gender, and “traditional” art.
Post Minimalism: 1966-1980
Purity and geometry, knotted and explosive: two approaches to feminist art from the early 1970s.
Lynda Benglis, Omega, and Judy Chicago, Pasadena ...
This sculpture was hanging in the artist’s studio at the time of her death; it can be hung in numerous ways.
Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece)
Women’s labor and the passage of time are evoked in this sculpture constructed of organic materials.
Jackie Winsor, #1 Rope
Her friends were into high conceptualism, but Hesse’s own approach is more playful, bodily, and feminist.
Eva Hesse, Untitled
Motherhood is explored and documented—but not sugarcoated—in Kelly’s five-year-long project.
Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document
Male and female forms reveal and conceal themselves simultaneously in this polished marble sculpture.