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Maren Hassinger

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The Poetic Grace of Maren Hassinger’s Vessels

Avatar photo by Alexandra M. Thomas May 18, 2021May 18, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz February 17, 2020February 14, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Anna Souter November 7, 2019November 11, 2019

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

Avatar photo by Cara Ober October 12, 2018October 31, 2018

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

Avatar photo by Louis Bury August 18, 2018August 20, 2018

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

Avatar photo by Colony Little May 17, 2018October 22, 2020

“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

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino July 19, 2017

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

by Matt Stromberg March 29, 2017March 29, 2017

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

by Jillian Steinhauer October 22, 2012October 26, 2012

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.

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