Lithe yet sturdy, Hassinger’s sheer organic forms belie their industrial materials.
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A Maren Hassinger Installation Blossoms From a “Tree of Knowledge” Rooted in a Majority Black Florida Town
Hassinger worked collaboratively with the Pearl City community to create a version of their “Tree of Knowledge” at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, its “roots” composed of twisted, flowing rolls of newspaper.
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Maren Hassinger Reminds Us That Equality Is For Everyone
The power of her work comes from its suggestion that specificity and universality, when it comes to identity and experience, are not mutually exclusive concepts, but often exist side by side.
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The Relentless Efforts of Maren Hassinger Result in an Overdue Retrospective
Maren Hassinger’s retrospective The Spirit of Things at the Baltimore Museum of Art not only validates her career but indicates something about our current political moment.
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Refuse Transformed: Reuse as Social Repair
These assemblages showcase art’s power and, poignantly its limitations, to effect material transformations.
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Maren Hassinger’s Poetic Gestures for Dealing with the Painful Past and Present
“If you are of African descent and your ancestors were part of the slave trade, you have issues which are alive today.”
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Maren Hassinger Restages Her 1982 “Pink Trash” Performance in Prospect Park
On July 23, Maren Hassinger, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum, will scatter bits of white trash that she painted pink onto the lawns of Prospect Park.
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Eight Decades of Sculpture by African American Women in LA
Opening this Saturday at Landing Gallery, Signifying Form features sculpture by African American women artists working in Los Angeles between 1935 and 2016.
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The Fantastic and Revelatory Story of Art and Black LA
On first glance, some may wonder why MoMA PS1, a New York contemporary art museum, has just opened a historical exhibition of art from Los Angeles. But as MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey explained at the press preview last week, the show in question, Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, actually has a connection to the New York institution.