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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 MoreModern 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.
EPISODE NO. 436: Ebony G. Patterson, Hedda Sterne >
Air date: March 12, 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 MoreThe 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.
