Eva Hesse

Connection 1969
Fiberglass,  polyester resin on cloth-covered metal wire
20 units, each 40.6 to 166.4 X 2.5 to 7.6cm
Eva Hesse

In this work, Hesse experimented with how fiberglass would respond when it was neither cast nor applied to a regular form. Hesse applied wet resin-dipped fiberglass to suspended wires and allowed chance and gravity to influence the final shapes. At the time of Hesse’s death, these twenty units (ten of which were shown in the 1969 exhibition A Plastic Presence at The Jewish Museum) were found in the artist’s studio. Collectively known as Connection, this work does not have a set installation. 

Hyperbolic Coral Reef

http://crochetcoralreef.org/

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The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef is a project by the Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles. The Crochet Reef resides at the intersection of mathematics, marine biology, handicraft and community art practice, and also responds to the environmental crisis of global warming and the escalating problem of oceanic plastic trash.

Anu Tuominen

Hair Wreaths: Fancywork from the Victorian Era

During the Victorian period (1837-1901), European and North American societies believed that a middle- or upper-class woman should function as manager of both the house and family. The interior of the home subsequently became a showcase for a woman’s best handwork and decorative taste. The term "fancy work" came to describe both functional and purely aesthetic objects a Victorian woman made or embellished in her free time. From 1850 to 1875, one of the most popular forms of fancywork was the hair wreath. Appealing to the tendency among Victorian women to incorporate the importance of friends and family into their work, hair served as a tangible remembrance of someone.

Laura Normandin

Trivets 1 & 2

Human hair on linen

2003

Teruyoshi Yoshida

Teruyoshi Yoshida
Surface of the Lake
Cotton cloth, gold leaf, iron
1985

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Karla Black

‘a material experience that has been prioritized over language'

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Mona Hatoum

"Keffieh," human hair on cotton, 1993-1999,

collection Peter Norton, Santa Monica

The Body 'Van Gogh’s Back'

1995, photograph on paper, 600 x 403 mm