Eva Hesse was a German-Jewish artist/sculptor known for her work in materials such as latex, fibreglass and plastics.She lived in New York from an early age. Her individual style first appeared in her drawings shown in her drawings ,shown in the early 1960’s in her first one-woman exhibition at Alan Stone Gallery in New York(1963).During a year spent in Germany,she constructed and exhibited 14 papier-mâché reliefs with chord wrapped wires embedded and protruding from them.
At the kunstkalle ,Düsseldorf ,among these exhibited works were ‘Tomorrows Apples ‘1965.In the years before her early death,Hesse’s sculptures grew in scale and changes from easel sized reliefs to ‘Expanded expansion'(1969,New York Guggenleilm)whose latex covered cheesecloth’curtains’draped between16 plexiglass poles.
Although not a textile artist(nor am I really!)in particular I can link the art of Eva Hesse to my own work.The textures,colour and thread-like materials and processes take on the look and texture of textiles particularly some of her larger installations such as expanded expansion.
