Hang Up

~~In 1976, Howardena Pindell began making paintings by cutting strips of canvas, sewing them together into a large rectangular grid, and covering them with collaged and painted materials to form an abstract field.The first of...

Between 1959 and 1967 Lee Bontecou made a large number of wall-mounted metal and fabric abstract relief works that were unlike anything then being produced by her peers in New York. The reliefs varied in size...

Andre stands out from most of his Minimalist contemporaries by placing himself as a sculptor rather than as an artist who moved out into three dimensions from a practice inspired by recent modernist painting such as Jackson Pollock’s and Barnett Newman’s. He insisted that he had ‘always been drawn toward mass and weight and three-dimensional stuff and, more candidly than many other sculptors and architects for whom ‘representation, or portrayal’ were at best peripheral to their thinking, he was …