--- title: "193 - Maintenance Art Works, Ukeles 5/8-6/13 1998" date: 2017-08-21T18:39:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/193-maintenance-art-works-ukeles-5-8-6-13-1998" section: Exhibition --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Maintenance Art Works [Mierle Laderman Ukeles](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) May 7 – Jun 12, 1998 ![Ukeles It’S Ok To Have A Babysitter January 15 1974 Install Shot 2 1](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/6220/Ukeles-It%E2%80%99s-OK-to-Have-a-Babysitter-January-15-1974-install-shot-2_1.jpg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles It's OK to Have a Babysitter, January 15, 1974 Description In 1969, "frazzled and dazzled" by the requirements of surviving as an artist while being a new mother, Mierle Ukeles wrote The Manifesto for Maintenance Art: "Care." Starting with personal maintenance, the work broadened to the maintenance of cultural institutions, urban and societal maintenance, and sustaining the earth itself. From 1977-80, the artist interacted with the entire New York City Department of Sanitation in the ground-breaking Touch Sanitation Performance. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Release ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/exhantuke98_press.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) View Artist ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) ![Ukeles I Make Maintenance Art One Hour Every Day 1976](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles-I-Make-Maintenance-Art-One-Hour-Every-Day-1976.JPG) Mierle Laerman Ukeles I Make Maintenance Art One Hour Every Day View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Ukeles I Make Maintenance Art One Hour Every Day 1976]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laerman Ukeles I Make Maintenance Art One Hour Every Day 1976 ![Ukeles The Keeping Of The Keys Maintenance As Security 1973]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles The Keeping of the Keys: Maintenance as Security 1973 ![Ukeles Washing Tracks Maintenance Outside 1973]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside 1973 ![Ukeles Dressing To Go Out Undressing To Go I N 1973]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Dressing to Go Out / Undressing to Go In, 1973 ![Ukeles Dressing To Go Out Undressing To Go In 1973 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Dressing to Go Out / Undressing to Go In, 1973 detail ![Ukeles Maintaince Art Work 1998 Portrait 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Maintenance Art Work, 1998 ![Ukeles Maintenance Art Works 1969 1979 Installation View Of South Gallery 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1998-Maintence-Art-Work/Ukeles-Maintenance-Art-Works-1969-1979-Installation-view-of-South-Gallery_1.JPG) Maintenance Art Works View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Ukeles Maintenance Art Works 1969 1979 Installation View Of South Gallery 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Maintenance Art Works installation view ![Ukeles Maintenance Art Works Installation 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Maintenance Art Works installation view ![Ukeles Maintenance Art Works Installation South Gallery 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Maintenance Art Works installation view ![Ukeles Now That You Have Heirs Airs Marcel Duchamp Maintain The Ties That Bind 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Maintenance Art Works installation view ![Ukeles Manifesto For Maintenance Art 1969 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Maintenance Art Works installation view ![Ukeles Maintenance Art Works 1969 1979 Installation View Of South Gallery 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1998-Maintence-Art-Work/Ukeles-Maintenance-Art-Works-1969-1979-Installation-view-of-South-Gallery_1.JPG) ![Ukeles Maintenance Art Works Installation 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1998-Maintence-Art-Work/Ukeles-Maintenance-Art-Works-installation_1.JPG) ![Ukeles Maintenance Art Works Installation South Gallery 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1998-Maintence-Art-Work/Ukeles-Maintenance-Art-Works-installation_South-Gallery_1.JPG) ![Ukeles Now That You Have Heirs Airs Marcel Duchamp Maintain The Ties That Bind 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1998-Maintence-Art-Work/Ukeles-Now-that-you-have-Heirs_Airs-Marcel-Duchamp-Maintain-the-Ties-that-Bind_1.JPG) ![Ukeles Manifesto For Maintenance Art 1969 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1998-Maintence-Art-Work/Ukeles-Manifesto-for-Maintenance-Art-1969-_1.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Ukeles Maintenance Art Works 1969 1979 Installation View Of South Gallery 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Maintenance Art Works installation view ![Ukeles Maintenance Art Works Installation 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Maintenance Art Works installation view ![Ukeles Maintenance Art Works Installation South Gallery 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Maintenance Art Works installation view ![Ukeles Now That You Have Heirs Airs Marcel Duchamp Maintain The Ties That Bind 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Maintenance Art Works installation view ![Ukeles Manifesto For Maintenance Art 1969 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Maintenance Art Works installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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