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Dissolving into Form

Eva Hesse's art comes into being even as it falls apart much like the life she led

Eva Hesse’s (1936-1970) artwork is falling to pieces. The industrial materials that she worked with – latex, fiberglass, plastic – are deteriorating. They have a limit to their life and show signs of this. The fiberglass resin, which Hesse chose … Continue reading

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SFMOMA and Pauletta Chanco’s “Living on Shifting Sands”

Two new SFMOMA exhibits on the possibility of light as a medium for discussing life, death and terminal illness

  SFMOMA opened two sister exhibits last night — How the Light Gets In: Bay Area Photo and Pauletta Chanco: Living on Shifting Sands. While the shows vary in their subject matter and medium, both touch on the importance of … Continue reading

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The “Unity” of Life and Death

Jay DeFoe's masterpiece, "The Rose," brings two opposite concepts together

Photo Credit: abstract-art.com “Death has kind of a negative connotation,” artist Jay DeFeo once said when speaking of her life’s major work, The Rose. She wanted the piece to represent the “unity” of life and death, not merely death. Completed … Continue reading

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