Art review: Martin Puryear sculptures at SFMOMA Nov 9, 2008
It seems to refer deliberately to well-known pieces by Robert Morris and Eva Hesse (1936-1970). Puryear's piece evokes someone preoccupied with the ideal while as perilously connected with the real as a cross-legged unicyclist. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Market exuberance surprises even the professionals May 17, 2008
Things improved with the next lot, also a drawing of what looked like a window with small square panes done in 1968 by Eva Hesse, who would die two years later. That made $1. (International Herald Tribune)
At MFA painting exhibiton, see the future of art Apr 13, 2008
Was this not the site where artists such as a Richard Serra, Eva Hesse and Jennifer Bartlett showed. Mostly devoid of information such as artist name or title, the work was arranged in the gallery space by the students as a part of the collaborative artistic process. (Yale Herald, CT)
Sol LeWitt, a Modern Master, Left a Vibrant Mark on the County Apr 13, 2007
Friday 13 April, 2007. "He was very comfortable. He was very self-possessed and self-assured. He was very, very self-assured," Mr. Doyle said of Mr. LeWitt. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Sol LeWitt, 78, sculptor and muralist Apr 10, 2007
He is survived by his wife and their two daughters: Sofia, who works at New York's Paula Cooper Gallery; and Eva, a student at Bard College who was named for his late friend, artist Eva Hesse. LeWitt was widely respected in the art community for his unstinting support of other artists, both famous and obscure. (Los Angeles Times)
The next big thing Mar 3, 2007
"It isn't, because there hasn't been this show yet. While pieces of the history have been written, we are still writing the history in all its complexity. The show is only one take on that. The revisionist part is the international component and an expanded definition of what feminist practice can be. There is a kind of academic feminism in the exhibition, the canonical list of people like Judy Chicago, Mimi Schapiro and Nancy Spiro, people we associate with feminist art and a certain kind of... (Los Angeles Times)
Quietly Puzzling Jan 18, 2007
REVIEW / An artist who finds comfort (and discomfort) in his own shoes. OK, OK, OK" (1990), as if he wanted to expose the sinew of effort itself, the better to know its value. Even the early pieces, watched through, induce in the viewer a corrosive skepticism toward the most routine acts of will. "A Rose Has No Teeth," the brainchild of Constance Lewallen at BAM, contains a few discoveries, such as the very brief, oddly disorienting film, "Uncovering a Sculpture" (1965). It also revisits much of... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
