MAREN HASSINGER | A SERIES of SIX VESSELS
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (EFA RBPMW) is honored to present a new series of lithographs by Maren Hassinger. In 1990, she was first invited by Robert Blackburn to make a set of reliefs and etchings with the Printmaking Workshop.
Over four decades, Hassinger has worked in fiber arts, sculpture, dance, and performance. With her recent return to print, our collaboration includes a series of six large lithographs flocked with fiber on silk organza fabric of vessel drawings. Each line is unedited, as an intentional performance made for print. As the silk fabric moves with the atmosphere, the lines of the prints contort; they live optically unfixed, becoming sculpturally unstill, dancing through space.
MAREN HASSINGER (b. 1947, Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in New York. She received her BA from Bennington College and her MFA in Fiber Structure from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has exhibited widely in both the United States and abroad, including public installations, Monument, in Washington, D.C. through the Smithsonian's American Women's History Initiative and Nature, Sweet Nature, at the Aspen Art Museum. Last spring, her work was on view in the exhibition, Knotted, Torn, Scattered: Sculpture after Abstract Expressionism, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC. Recent solo exhibitions include Dia: Bridgehampton; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City.
Hassinger is the recipient of many awards and honors including grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Gottlieb Foundation, Anonymous was a Woman, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for the Arts. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, among others.
She is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery.
