Hannah Wilke (born Arlene Hannah Butter; March 7, 1940 – January 28, 1993) was an American

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and

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ist. Wilke's work is known for exploring issues of

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and

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Biography

Hannah Wilke was born on March 7, 1940 in

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parents; her grandparents were Eastern European immigrants. In 1962, she received a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Bachelor of Science in Education from the

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, Philadelphia. She taught art in several high schools for approximately 30 years and joined the faculty of the

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. After her graduation the same year she taught art at two high schools. First, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania (1961-1965), between 1965 and 1970 she worked in White Plains, New York. After leaving White Plains, she joined the School of Visual Arts, in New York (1972-1991). From 1969 to 1977, Wilke was in a relationship with the American Pop artist,

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, and they lived, worked and traveled together during that time. Wilke's work was exhibited nationally and internationally throughout her life and continues to be shown posthumously. Solo exhibitions of her work were first mounted in New York and Los Angeles in 1972. Her first full museum exhibition was held at the

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, in 1976, and her first retrospective at the

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in 1989. Posthumous retrospectives were shown in

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, and

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in 2000 and at the

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from 2008 to 2009. Since her death, Wilke's work has been shown in solo gallery shows, group exhibitions, and several surveys of women's art, including ''WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution'' at the

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, ''Elles'' at the

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, and ''Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016'' at

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Los Angeles. The Hannah Wilke Collection and Archive, Los Angeles was founded in 1999 by Hannah Wilke's sister Marsie Scharlatt and her family, and has been represented by

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, London since 2009. Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by

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Early work

Wilke first gained renown with her " vulval"

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sculptures in the 1960s. Her sculptures, first exhibited in New York in the late 1960s, are often mentioned as some of the first explicit

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imagery arising from the

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, and they became her signature form which she made in various media, colors and sizes, including large floor installations, throughout her life. Some of her mediums included clay, chewing gum, kneaded erasers, laundry lint and latex. The use of unconventional materials is typical of feminist art, nodding to women's historical lack of access to traditional art supplies and education. Further, she reported that the reason she chose chewing gum was because ″It's the perfect metaphor for the American women- chew her up, get what you want out of her, throw her out and pop in a new piece″ Wilke's sculptures were an innovative example of eroticism using a style that combined

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and feminist aesthetics. A consummate draftswoman, Wilke created numerous drawings, beginning in the early 1960s and continuing throughout her life. In a review of Wilke's drawings at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in 2010, Thomas Micchelli wrote in ''

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'': "at her core, she was a maker of things ... an artist whose sensuality and humor are matched by her formal acumen and tactile rigor." She performed live and videotaped performance art, beginning in 1974 with ''Hannah Wilke Super-t-Art'', a live performance at the Kitchen, New York, which she also made into an iconic photographic work. Wilke's performances evoke the likes of

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, and

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. The sculptural art Wilke created, with its unconventional materials and feminist narratives also relates to the work of

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, and Niki de St Phalle.

Body art

In 1974, Wilke began work on her photographic

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piece ''S.O.S — Starification Object Series,'' in which she merged her minimalist sculpture and her own body by creating tiny vulval sculptures out of

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and sticking them to herself. She then had herself photographed in various

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poses, providing a juxtaposition of glamour and something resembling tribal scarification. Wilke has related the scarring on her body to an awareness of the

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. These poses exaggerate and satirize American cultural values of feminine beauty and fashion and also hint at an interest in ceremonial scarification. The 50 self-portraits were originally created as a game, "S.O.S.Starificaion Object Series: An Adult Game of Mastication", 1974–75, which Wilke made into an installation that is now in the

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, Paris. She also performed this piece publicly in Paris in 1975, having audience members chew the gum for her before she sculpted them and placed them on papers that she hung on the wall. Wilke also used colored chewing gum as a medium for individual sculptures, using multiple pieces of gum to create a complex layering representing the vulva. Wilke's use of vaginas and vulvas refer to her idea of ″natural womanhood″, in order to support her argument that women are biologically superior. Later on in 1976 she once again conjured the pin-up poses in her self-portrait, ''Marxism and Art: Beware of Fascist Feminism''. Wilke coined the term "performalist self-portraits" to credit photographers who assisted her, including her father (''First Performalist Self-Portrait'', 1942–77) and her sister, Marsie (Butter) Scharlatt (''Arlene Hannah Butter and Cover of Appearances'', 1954–77). The title of Wilke's photographic and performance work, ''So Help Me Hannah'', 1979, was taken from a vernacular phrase from the 1930s and '40s and has been interpreted as playing off of the

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and referencing Wilke's relationship with her mother. Besides ''Hannah Wilke Super-t-Art'', 1974, other well-known performances in which Wilke used her body include ''Gestures'', 1974; ''Hello Boys'', 1975; ''Intercourse with ... '' (audio installation) 1974–1976; ''Intercourse with ... '' (video) 1976; and ''Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass'' performed at the

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in 1977.

Death and ''Intra-Venus''

Hannah Wilke died in Houston, Texas, in 1993 from

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. Her last work, ''Intra-Venus'' (1992–1993), is a posthumously published photographic record of her physical transformation and deterioration resulting from

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and bone marrow transplant. The photographs, which were taken by her husband Donald Goddard whom she had lived with since 1982 and married in 1992 shortly before her death, confront the viewer with personal images of Wilke progressing from midlife happiness to bald, damaged, and resigned. ''Intra-Venus'' mirrors her photo diptych ''Portrait of the Artist with Her Mother, Selma Butter'', 1978–82, which portrayed her mother's struggles with breast cancer and "having literally incorporated her mother, illness and all." ''Intra-Venus'' was exhibited and published posthumously partially in response to Wilke's feelings that clinical procedures hide patients as if dying were a "personal shame". The Intra Venus works also include watercolor Face and Hand drawings, ''Brushstrokes,'' a series of drawings made from her own hair and the ''Intra Venus Tapes'', a 16-channel videotape installation.

Pose and narcissism

Wilke often features herself as a posing glamour model. Her use of self in photography and

, however, has been interpreted as a celebration and validation of Self, Women, the Feminine, and

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. Conversely, it has also been described as an artistic deconstruction of cultural modes of female vanity,

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, and beauty.Jones (1998), pp.151-152. Wilke referred to herself as a feminist artist from the beginning. The

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Ann-Sargent Wooster said that Wilke's identification with the feminist movement was confusing because of her beauty — her self-portraitures looked more like a Playboy centerfold than the typical feminist nudes. According to Wooster,

The problem Wilke faced in being taken seriously is that she was conventionally beautiful and her beauty and self-absorbed narcissism distracted you from her reversal of the voyeurism inherent in women as sex objects. In her photographs of herself as a goddess, a living incarnation of great works of art or as a pin-up, she wrested the means of production of the female image from male hands and put them in her own.

If critics found Wilke's beauty an impediment to understanding her work, this changed in the early 1990s when Wilke began documenting the decay of her body ravaged by lymphoma. Wilke's use of self-portraiture has been explored in detail in writing about her last photographic series, ''Intra Venus''. Wilke once answered the critics who commented on her body being too beautiful for her work by saying "People give me this bullshit of, 'What would you have done if you weren't so gorgeous?' What difference does it make? ... Gorgeous people die as do the stereotypical 'ugly.' Everybody dies."

Critical recognition

During her lifetime, Wilke was widely exhibited and received critical praise while also being viewed as controversial. However, until recently, museums were hesitant to acquire work by women artists who, including Wilke, engaged in protests decrying their lack of inclusion during the feminist movement of the 1970s. While still alive, Wilke's work was in a few permanent collections, showcasing the confrontational use of the female sexuality. Since her death, Wilke's work has been acquired for the permanent collections of

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, New York, the

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, New York,

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, and in European museums such as the

, Paris.

Solo exhibitions

*1972, ''Hannah Wilke'', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York *1974, ''Hannah Wilke'', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York *1975, ''Hannah Wilke'', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York *1976, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine *1978, ''Through the Large Glass'', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York *1978, PS1, Long Island City, New York *1979,

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, Washington, DC *1984, ''Support Foundation Comfort'', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York *1989, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St Louis *1989, ''About Face'', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York *1994, ''Intra-Venus'', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York (traveling exhibition displaying photographs set out like the Stations of the Cross, showing her personal confrontation with her own death) *1996, ''Hannah Wilke: Performalist Self-Portraits and Video/Film Performances 1976'' – ''85,'' Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York *1998, ''Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective'', Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen (traveling exhibition) *1999, ''Hannah Wilke: Sculpture & Other Work'', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York *2000, ''Uninterrupted Career: Hannah Wilke 1940–1993'',

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, Berlin *2006, ''Exchange Values'', Artium- Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain *2007, ''Intra-Venus Tapes 1990-1993'', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York *2008, ''Hannah Wilke: Gestures'',

, Purchase, New York *2010, ''Early Drawings,'' Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York *2014, ''Hannah Wilke, Sculpture: 1960s-80s'', Alison Jacques Gallery, London *2018, ''Hannah Wilke'', Alison Jacques Gallery, London *2019, ''Force of Nature,'' Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York *2021, ''Eva Hesse/Hannah Wilke: Erotic Abstraction,'' Acquavella Galleries, New York *2021, ''Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake,'' Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis

Awards

She received a Creative Artists Public Service Grant (1973); National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1987, 1980, 1979, 1976); Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grants (1992, 1987); a Guggenheim Fellowship (1982), and an International Association of Art Critics Award (1993).

Collections

Wilke's work is held in the following permanent collections: *

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, Buffalo, NY *

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, U.K. *

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, Madrid, Spain *

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, Minneapolis, MN *

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, New Haven, CT *

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, New York, NY *

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, New York, NY *

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, New York, NY *

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, Oberlin, OH *

, Paris, France *

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, Princeton, NJ * David Winton Bell Gallery,

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, Providence, RI *

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, Reno, NV *

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, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA *

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, Ann Arbor, MI

References

External links

* *Nancy Princenthal
Hannah Wilke
(Prestel USA, 2010)
''! Woman art revolution''
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