Eva Hesse, Repetition Nineteen III, 1968, fiberglass and polyester resin, nineteen units, Each 19 to 20 1/4
Eva Hesse, the German-born American artist, had only a ten-year career before her death of a brain tumor at age 34 in 1970, but she made an indelible mark in the art world as a Postminimalist. The artist cut her teeth among the Minimalists, but quickly moved beyond the male-dominated, cerebral art movement. Experimenting with fiberglass, latex, rubber and resin, Hesse created sculptures with repeating organic forms, which she found at once erotic, humorous and absurd, conceived in reference and in contrast to slick, machine-made and repetitive Minimalist works of art.
