Exhibition Review

Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016

2016

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Bibliographic Reference

“Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016,” curated by Jenni Sorkin and Paul Schimmel, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel Los Angeles (December 2016) CAA Reviews

Co-curated by Paul Schimmel, former chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and partner and vice president at Hauser and Wirth; and Jenni Sorkin, art historian, critic, and assistant professor of contemporary art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947–2016 felt like an ambitious museum exhibition, especially with its impressive roster of thirty-four artists working across so much of the twentieth century and into the present. And yet it was the inaugural project at Hauser Wirth and Schimmel, a commercial gallery-cum-arts complex. Located in the heart of the downtown Los Angeles Arts District, the space—a restored Globe Mills campus comprising late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings—was adapted by Creative Space, Los Angeles, with a restaurant, public garden, and bookstore among other amenities.

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