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Contingent

Elspeht Pratt: Concentric Circles
Elspeht Pratt: Concentric Circles

Elspeth Pratt. Concentric Circles 1995. L-bead, painted cardboard. 246 x 145 x 286 cm. Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay.
19 Sep 1995 – 29 Oct 1995

Roughly a generation separates Hesse’s later work from the production of Pratt and Townsend. The latter suggests that artists continue to rethink and re-use post minimal idioms via subsequent developments in feminist critical theory and art practice. Contingent placed the work of two contemporary Canadian women in the context of American postminimal art making of the 1960s and 70s. The Gallery was honoured to be able to present several small sculptures by Eva Hesse, which are ordinarily very difficult to borrow.

A public panel discussion including curator Ingrid Jenkner, the artists and a representative of the Eva Hesse Estate, New York, introduced the unexpectedly contested issue of feminism in abstract art practice.

Contingent: Small Sculpture by Eva Hesse, 1966-1968 / Recent Works by sculpture by Martha Townsend and Elspeth Pratt 1992-1995Exhibition Catalogue

See also Carolee Schneemann’s Composition with Interior Scrolls.

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Exhibition Images
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Elspeth Pratt: Lucky MeEva Hesse: Inside IIMartha Townsend: Berceau   


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