Hannah Wilke: Sculpture in the Landscape
Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia
25 April – 12 July 2019
Hannah Wilke, Untitled (Blue Gum on Tree Trunk, Los Angeles), 1976. Courtesy: © Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles; .icensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York, and DACs, London
‘Hannah Wilke: Sculpture in the Landscape’, 2019, exhibition view, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia. Courtesy: Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia; photo: Sam Fritch
Hannah Wilke, Untitled (Gum on Acorn, Los Angeles), 1976. Courtesy: © Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles; licensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York, and DACs, London
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University was honored to present the work of alumna and feminist icon Hannah Wilke (above), who studied at Tyler from 1957 to 1962 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Bachelor of Science in Education.
“Hannah Wilke: Sculpture in the Landscape” was organized in collaboration with the Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles. Directed by Wilke’s family, the archive contains Wilke’s correspondence, papers, photographs and hundreds of works by Wilke, some of which have been exhibited by the family since Wilke’s death in 1993.
For the exhibition, the Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive agreed to present photographs Wilke titled the Gum in Landscape Series and photographs of ceramic and bronze sculpture in the landscape that were never printed or shown during her lifetime. This exhibition and its accompanying catalog provided a rare opportunity to experience a previously unknown body of Hannah Wilke’s work and gain a new perspective on this legendary artist.