--- title: 2021_Wilke_Art-in-America-Online date: 2021-10-29T17:33:00-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021-wilke-art-in-america-online" section: News --- [![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/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Hannah Wilke: Living as Art Art in America Oct 20, 2021 To live one’s life *as* art has advantages over living one’s life *for* art, not the least of which is that it is often more fun. Hannah Wilke’s work—currently the subject of a retrospective at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis—is testament to art’s generative and relational potential. Wilke developed a practice in which the boundaries between herself and her art dissolved. “I become my art, my art becomes me,” she wrote in “A Letter to Women Artists” in 1975, and in a 1986 interview with Linda Montano: “I made myself into a work of art” and “my entire life is the work of art.” She said she made art to “have life all around.” If art can invite life as a force into a single life, life is art enriched by more art, which brings more life, which goes on and on this way in a process that is exponential and combinatory. This compounding liveliness—a liveliness that indicates something like *liberation* at a historical moment when many were trying to work out all that word could mean—is the prevalent tone in Wilke’s work, even when it approached caring for her mother during breast cancer treatment and then facing her own death from lymphoma at the age of fifty-two. “Art,” said Wilke, “is for life’s sake.” **[Read more here.](https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/hannah-wilke-living-as-art-pulitzer-arts-foundation-1234607565/)** Related News & Press Oct 13, 2021 [ ![Cassils Inextinguishable Fire Burn for Portrait 2007 2015 02](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-Inextinguishable-Fire-Burn-for-Portrait-2007-2015_02.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021-cassils-cnn-style) Oct 13, 2021 [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Bodybuilding, boxing and fire: How Cassils pushes performance art to its extreme](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021-cassils-cnn-style) Sep 01, 2021 [ ![Wilke So Help Me Hannah 1978 squatting looking back hair on face gun 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-So-Help-Me-Hannah-1978-squatting-looking-back-hair-on-face-gun_1.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021-wilke-art-in-america) Sep 01, 2021 Art in America [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Living as Art](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021-wilke-art-in-america) Aug 14, 2021 [ ![Wilke Intra Venus Marilyn Monroe 1992 1993 HWCALA Scharlatt VAGA ARS3 1200x780](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-Intra-Venus-Marilyn-Monroe_-1992-1993-HWCALA-%C2%A9-Scharlatt_VAGA_ARS3-1200x780.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021-wilke-hyperallergic) Aug 14, 2021 Hyperallergic [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [The Willful Jouissance of Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021-wilke-hyperallergic) Jul 22, 2021 [ ![White male artist 1](/assets/exhibition_images/white-male-artist-1.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021-cassils-artnet-news) Jul 22, 2021 Artnet News [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Meet the Anonymous Artist Who’s Auctioning Off Cans of Their Own Poop Based on the Diets of Major Market Stars at Phillips](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021-cassils-artnet-news) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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