Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review & Feature - September 2019

Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College

To view drawings from an artist’s archives is to engage in an intimate encounter. Expressions of labor and subconscious emotions, sketches, and workings-out; these are things an artist probably never imagined would see the light of day, and confronting them is like stumbling upon an open diary. That sensation overcame me as I studied a small, untitled drawing from 1970 by Eva Hesse, on view in Hauser & Wirth’s current exhibition, Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College.

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