--- title: 2022_Wilke_Artforum date: 2022-01-07T18:31:00-05:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2022/2022-wilke-artforum" 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) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg)Artists [ 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[Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Daniel Kraus on Hannah Wilke Artforum Jan 01, 2022 [](https://www.artforum.com/print/202201/daniel-marcus-on-the-art-of-hannah-wilke-87445)Writer Chris Kraus devotes a long section of her 1997 book *I Love Dick* to artist Hannah Wilke, who had passed away from lymphoma a few years earlier. Identifying with Wilke’s reputation as a “female monster,” Kraus glimpsed what few other writers at the time could see. Over a career spanning more than three decades, from the late 1950s until her last days in the cancer ward, where she died at age fifty-two, Wilke treated her art as a vector of her desire, “continuously exposing \[herself\] to whatever situation occurs,” as she put it in a 1976 statement. Rejected as a shameless exhibitionist, she carried on unhindered, refusing to place her sexuality—or her body—under wraps. Her striptease was relentless and ruthless, never more so than in her final body of work, “Intra-Venus,” 1992–93, a series of large-scale color photographs and videos in which the artist, sick with cancer, stunts for the camera in the costume of illness, still every bit the goddess in bandages and with an IV drip. **[Read more here.](https://www.artforum.com/print/202201/daniel-marcus-on-the-art-of-hannah-wilke-87445)** Related News & Press Nov 01, 2021 [ ![Hannah Wilke with Ponder r rosa 4](/assets/exhibition_images/Hannah-Wilke-with-Ponder-r-rosa-4.jpeg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-newcity-art) Nov 01, 2021 [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Subject and Object: Rethinking Feminist Icon Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-newcity-art) Oct 20, 2021 [ ![Wilke Intra Venus 4 July 261992 February 19 1992 Edit](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-Intra-Venus-4-July-261992-February-19-1992-Edit.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-art-in-america-online) Oct 20, 2021 Art in America [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Hannah Wilke: Living as Art](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-wilke-art-in-america-online) Oct 21, 2021 [ ![Picture1](/assets/exhibition_images/Picture1.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-cassils-the-new-york-times) Oct 21, 2021 The New York Times [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [For This Artist, the Medium Is the Body](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2021/2021-cassils-the-new-york-times) 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/2021/2021-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/2021/2021-cassils-cnn-style) [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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