This sculpture, circa 1965, is by the Oregon artist and activist Norma Heyser (1933-). It was shown in her 1960s solo exhibition at Mt. Angel College, a short-lived but vibrant art school and arts venue active in the late '60s to early '70s located in Mt. Angel, Oregon. In the exhibition, the piece was hung from the ceiling - it has an embedded metal hook so that it can be re-installed in that same manner. Heyser studied at the Museum Art School in Portland in the mid-1950s, and went on.....
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Working in sculpture, photography, performance, and video, Hannah Wilke (1940-1993) is critical to the trajectory of feminist art history in the 20th Century. Her political works addressed sex, language, desire, and gender in form and material. Her gestural folded vaginal works employed unusual single materials such kneeded eraser or chewing gum (including the Juicy Fruit and Big Red brands). In 1974, Wilke began the S.O.S Starification Object Series – a photographic series in which she adorned her unclothed body with the vaginal gum forms. Punning words including star, scar, and.....
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Working in sculpture, photography, performance, and video, Hannah Wilke (1940-1993) is critical to the trajectory of feminist art history in the 20th Century. Her political works addressed sex, language, desire, and gender in form and material. Her gestural folded vaginal works employed unusual single materials such kneeded eraser or chewing gum (including the Juicy Fruit and Big Red brands). In 1974, Wilke began the S.O.S Starification Object Series – a photographic series in which she adorned her unclothed body with the vaginal gum forms. Punning words including star, scar, and.....
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