Performalist Self-Portraits and Video/Film Performances

Performalist Self-Portraits and Video/Film Performances

Hannah Wilke

Sep 20 – Oct 18, 1996

Hannah Wilke

So Help Me Hannah, Snatch-Shots with Ray Guns, 1978

Description

The Feldman Gallery will present video/film performances by Hannah Wilke from 1976-85 including So Help Me Hannah (1978) and Through the Large Glass (1976). The exhibition will also include photographs and other wall works related to these performances.

Hannah Wilke has played a seminal and innovative role in the history of performance art and remains an important influence on contemporary art today. Throughout her career, and even before it formally started in the early l960s, Hannah Wilke periodically created work -- drawings, photographs, live appearances, videotapes, audiotapes, film, advertisements -- that involved her own performance. They began with photographs in childhood and adolescence and continued through the videos and photos that recorded her final illness with lymphoma.

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Hannah Wilke

Philly, 1976

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Hannah Wilke

Philly, 1976

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Hannah Wilke

I Object: Memoirs of a Sugargiver, 1977-78

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Hannah Wilke

So Help Me Hannah: Portrait of the Artist with Her Mother, Selma Butter, 1978-81

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Hannah Wilke

Snatch-Shots with Ray Guns, 1978

(from the So Help Me Hannah series)

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Hannah Wilke

Snatch-Shots with Ray Guns, 1978

(from the So Help Me Hannah series)

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Hannah Wilke

Suit Suite, DETAIL 1, 1976-1978

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Hannah Wilke

Suit Suite, DETAIL 6, 1976-1978

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Hannah Wilke

Suit Suite, DETAIL 8, 1976-1978

Performalist Self-Portraits

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Performalist Self-Portraits

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Performalist Self-Portraits

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Performalist Self-Portraits

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Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. The gallery is located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City and exhibits performance, photography, new media, film, painting, drawing and sculpture.