This opening of Hannah Wilke will take place on September 8th, 2007 – but I’m planning to attend because I studied with Hannah Wilke in 1975-76 while I was taking courses at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and I ran into her at the Guggenheim a year or two before she died (Hannah Wilke died in 1993).

I remember Hannah as a handsome woman who did a lot of erotic sculpture.  I was invited to her studio a couple of times when I was in her sculpture class at SVA.

While I never really related to the strong feminist element of her work I liked her as a person … and while I didn’t know her well, she touched my life and that usually means to me ..that I should show up at an opening of hers and try to understand what her life was about, especially the end of it – which must have been painful.

Well…. I guess we all have to take the cards we are dealt by life – I look forward to reconnecting with Hannah Wilke’s late work at her opening next month at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.

Hannah Wilke, Intra-Venus Tapes, 1990-1993

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
Soho

31 Mercer Street, 212-226-3232

September 8 – October 13, 2007

Opening: Saturday, September 8, 6:00PM – 8:00PM

Web Site

“…The Ronald Feldman Gallery will exhibit Hannah Wilke’s Intra-Venus Tapes, a two-hour video installation on sixteen monitors, shot and planned during the last two and a half years of her life and completed since her death from lymphoma in 1993.Producer and participant: Donald Goddard
Technical producer and sound editor: John Carlson
Technical Advisor: Thomas J. Veltre

Other works by Hannah Wilke will also be exhibited.”