Barbara Hammer, Senga Nengudi and Harriet Korman are among the artists pulled together for a group show at the L.A. gallery Morán Morán.
In the show “Please Recall to Me Everything You Have Thought of” at the L.A. gallery Morán Morán, artist Eve Fowler brings together 20 female artists in the later years of their careers. The show’s title comes from a text by Gertrude Stein, whose writings Fowler has explored. It’s a polite, if unreasonable request — who can recall everything? Still, it speaks to a hunger for artistic and cultural inheritance.
The show seems to organize itself around at least two themes: the sensate body and the rigors of geometry. Exemplifying the former are three works by the venerable Barbara Hammer, a pioneer in representing lesbian sensuality, who died this year. Her black-and-white photographs of female nudes in natural settings, taken in the early 1970s, are disarmingly frank but also hark back to a long line of art historical representations of women in nature.
Maren Hassinger’s photograph “Whole Cloth,” from 2017, weaves the sensuous and the abstract together. It depicts a close-up view of interwoven fabrics in varying shades of beige and tan. It’s a simple gesture, like Korman’s painting, presenting a wavering, imperfect grid. It also suggests weaving — traditionally women’s work — as a precursor to the grid as aesthetic framework.
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