Press Information for A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture
Information and photos pertaining to the A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture exhibition may be found below. Photos are strictly for press use and must include appropriate caption and credit information, as indicated below.
Organized by the visiting curator Chassidy A. Winestock, the exhibition brings together works by four artists—Maren Hassinger, Howardena Pindell, Liliana Porter, and Mildred Thompson—who developed innovative abstract languages and vocabularies in the 1960s and 1970s. Through actions that nailed, folded, unraveled, pierced, and fastened, these artists made works that highlight the body by foregrounding the operations required to create them.
Visit the exhibition web page for more information.
Harvard Radcliffe Institute gratefully acknowledges the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Endowment Fund for the Arts, which is supporting this exhibition.
Harvard Radcliffe Institute and Chassidy Winestock are grateful to Howardena Pindell, Maren Hassinger, Liliana Porter, and the late Mildred Thompson; the Spelman College Archives at the Women’s Research and Resource Center and Spelman College; the archivist Holly A. Smith; Melissa Messina, the Executor of The Estate of Mildred Thompson; Mary Schneider-Enriquez; Carrie Lambert-Beatty; Jennifer L. Roberts; Harvard Art Museums; Galerie Lelong & Co.; the Susan Inglett Gallery; the Garth Greenan Gallery; and the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Endowment Fund for the Arts.
Please contact Mac Daniel at mac_daniel@radcliffe.harvard.edu with any questions.
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Installation view, A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, 2024. Photo by Julia Featheringill/courtesy of Harvard Radcliffe Institute
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Installation view, A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, 2024. Photo by Julia Featheringill/courtesy of Harvard Radcliffe Institute
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Installation view, A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, 2024. Photo by Julia Featheringill/courtesy of Harvard Radcliffe Institute
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Howardena Pindell, Duration: 5/16/73, 1973. Ink on paper collage, 11 x 8 1/2 inches (27.9 x 21.6 cm). Photo by Christopher Burke Studios/ShootArt. Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
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Maren Hassinger, Four Winds, 1990. Woodblock print, edition of 4, 21 x 21 inches. Courtesy the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
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Maren Hassinger, Wind in the Garden, 1990. Woodblock print, edition of 6, 19 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
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Maren Hassinger, Garden, 1985, detail. Concrete and wire rope, 4 x 12 x 12 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
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Liliana Porter, Cover for a Foreign Object, 1970. Etching on off-white wove paper with black yarn, sheet: 71 × 55.5 cm (27 15/16 × 21 7/8 in.), platemark: 44.5 × 34.2 cm (17 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.). © Liliana Porter. Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
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Mildred Thompson, A Female Landscape, 1977, detail. Artist book. Photo by Mike Jensen. Courtesy of the Audre Lorde Papers, Spelman College Archives
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Mildred Thompson, Untitled, 1975. Wood, 39 x 49 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (99 x 126.3 x 3 cm). Photo by Mike Jensen/ courtesy The Estate of Mildred Thompson and Galerie Lelong & Co.
