Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties

by Lynn Zelevansky

Catalog for exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, June 16- September 11, 1994. This exhibition represents one of many possible takes on women and the Post-Minimalist legacy. Its conception and realization greatly depend on the efforts of numerous artists who, over the last twenty-five years, have forged significant changes within the art world. The show included works from Polly Apfelbaum, Mona Hatoum, Rachel Lachowicz, Jac Leirner. Claudia Matzko, Rachel Whitehead; and, Andrea Zittell.

64 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1994

Reviews

[Beth Shapeero]

#8

Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties
by Lynn Zelevansky

Quit a good little catalogue to give me an insight into some post-minimalist work by female artists. Most were using minimalist structures or aesthetics but eschewing the minimalist tradition of making works that were solely literal and formal for more conceptual or thought evoking strategies. Most of the works here are less relevant to my own practice than the minimalist artists but still a very good collection of works giving some clues to understanding the progression of form and thinking form minimalism to the artists cited here which is also very resonant in the artworks you see being made today.