Photo credit : Museum Associates/LACMA
Ep.170 MAREN HASSINGER (b. 1947) has built an interdisciplinary practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race. The artist uses her materials to mimic nature, whether bundling it to resemble a monolithic sheaf of wheat or planting it in cement to create an industrial garden. Within the past five years, the artist has executed commissions for Dia Bridgehampton, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Aspen Art Museum. Work is currently installed on the terrace of the Art Institute of Chicago, along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, at Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton, and in Ugo Rondinone’s Sculpture Milwaukee. Hassinger will be included in the upcoming exhibition Groundswell: Women of Land Art at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas and will be honored with an upcoming two-person survey alongside Senga Nengudi at IVAM, Valencia as well as an exhibition focused on their work in performance at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR. She is the recipient of the Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hirshhorn Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the San Francisco Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others.
Susan Inglett Gallery https://www.inglettgallery.com/artists/255-maren-hassinger/overview/
Smithsonian | Hirshhorn Museum https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/maren-hassinger-hirshhorn-artist-diaries/
Getty https://www.getty.edu/news/getty-acquires-maren-hassinger-archive/
Dia Art https://www.diaart.org/exhibition/exhibitions-projects/maren-hassinger-exhibition-301
Long House Reserve https://longhouse.org/products/artist-maren-hassinger
MICA https://www.mica.edu/graduate-programs/rinehart-school-of-sculpture-mfa/maren-hassinger/
Inquirer https://www.inquirer.com/arts/schuylkill-river-public-art-steel-bodies-philadelphia-20230623.html
Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/events/2023/06/02/maren-hassinger-process/
The Grio https://thegrio.com/2023/09/08/getty-acquires-archive-of-renowned-artist-maren-hassinger/
Sculpture Milwaukee https://www.sculpturemilwaukee.com/nature-doesnt-know-about-us/maren-hassinger
MCAD https://www.mcad.edu/events/visiting-artist-lecture-maren-hassinger
Art Pil https://artpil.com/announcements/maren-hassinger-process/
MICA https://www.mica.edu/graduate-programs/rinehart-school-of-sculpture-mfa/maren-hassinger/
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maren_Hassinger
MoMA https://www.moma.org/artists/41280
Hammer https://hammer.ucla.edu/now-dig-this/artists/maren-hassinger
Socrates Sculpture Park https://socratessculpturepark.org/artist/maren-hassinger/
Artic https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10139/maren-hassinger-this-is-how-we-grow
Association For Public Art https://www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/news/the-association-for-public-art-brings-maren-hassingers-steel-bodies-to-philadelphia/
The Great Northern Festival https://thegreatnorthernfestival.com/2023/maren-hassinger-love-for-minneapolis
The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/30/maren-hassinger-archive-acquired-getty-research-institute
Beverly Press https://beverlypress.com/2023/09/hassinger-works-added-to-getty-archive/
Bush (On Dangerous Ground), 1981/2023
Wire rope 48 x 36 in. dia. (15 variations)
Dimensions vary per unit (MH0288)
Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
Splintered Starburst (On Dangerous Ground), 1981/2023
Wire rope 50 dia. x 12 in. (4 variations)
Dimensions vary per unit (MH0260)
Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC.
On Dangerous Ground (studio), April 1981
Photo: © Museum Associates/LACMA Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC.
On Dangerous Ground (studio), April 1981
Photo: © Museum Associates/LACMA Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC.
