The Hedda Sterne Foundation is pleased to announce our new partnership with Victoria Miro. Today the gallery announced representation of Hedda Sterne and plans for a solo exhibition of her work in their Venice gallery this autumn (November 5 - December 10, 2022). Read the full announcement and visit their website at victoria-miro.com.
Read MorePresented by the Fritz Ascher Society as part of their monthly series “Flight or Fight: stories of artists under repression,” Dr. Sarah Eckhardt (Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA) and Shaina Larrivee (Director of The Hedda Sterne Foundation, New York) discuss Hedda Sterne’s emigration from Romania to the US.
June 3, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Modern Art Notes Podcast host Tyler Green speaks with Shaina Larrivee, Director of The Hedda Sterne Foundation, about the exhibition “Hedda Sterne: Imagination & Machine” at the Des Moines Art Center.
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Air date: March 12, 2020
A collection of drawings by Hedda Sterne will be presented by Van Doren Waxter at two upcoming New York art fairs. Please visit their booths:
The ADAA Art Show
Booth A14
February 27 – March 1, 2020
The Armory Show
Pier 94, Booth 807
March 5 – 8, 2020
The 2019 issue of the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin includes new scholarship by Frauke V. Josenhans and Cynthia Schwarz on Hedda Sterne’s interest in the material aspect of her work and technique itself. From the authors:
[Hedda Sterne] would apply various layers of paint, for example, only to scrape parts of it away, and she used both traditional and atypical tools to do so. Whether she was drawing or painting, the sheets and canvases bear testimony to her relentless reworking of the surface. Her oeuvre underscores her continuous quest not for perfection or success but for understanding and grasping her surroundings, often through radical shifts from one style to another.
Read MoreThe Des Moines Art Center will present “Hedda Sterne: Imagination and Machine,” January 10 - April 5, 2020. This exhibition will feature seven rarely seen painting by Sterne commissioned by Fortune magazine and published in their July 1961 issue. The painting served as a visual profile of Deere & Co., created after Sterne’s tour of the company’s factories in Illinois and Iowa. The depictions of tractor parts and mechanical tools are Sterne’s effort to “understand not how they work, but how they are.”
Read MoreIn January Victoria Miro, London, will present the first UK solo exhibition of works by Hedda Sterne at their Mayfair gallery (January 29 - May 21, 2020). We are delighted to share this news, and look forward to the show and catalogue with new scholarship by Eleanor Nairne.
Read MoreIn spring 2020 Fundación Juan March will present "The Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum," March 6 – June 7, 2020. Using Nina Lean’s well-known photograph as a starting point, the exhibition will present work by artists who took part in the protest that precipitated the image, and will highlight the enormous complexity of American art of the era.
Read MoreVan Doren Waxter, New York
Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 6:30p.m.
Presented by the Dedalus Foundation and the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation in association with The Brooklyn Rail, this event features readings of poetry, letters, interviews and visual texts from leading independent artists' archives. Patti Trimble reads select unpublished writing by Hedda Sterne, gleaned from The Hedda Sterne Foundation's archives.
Dedalus Foundation, New York
April 21, 2017, 10:30am-1:00pm
The Hedda Sterne Foundation is happy to share our newly updated website. As part of our mission to explore and share the remarkable legacy of Hedda Sterne, we are delighted to include dozens of new images of Sterne's artwork, an illustrated chronology, and additional new resources to help anyone interested in learning more about the artist follow their curiosity.
We wish to thank the many distinguished museums who have shared images of work by Hedda Sterne from their holdings. Many of these images are collected for the first time on this site, providing a valuable illustration of the breadth and scope of Sterne's eight-decade-long career.
So please explore, enjoy, and stay tuned as we continue to add content.
