Susan Inglett Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Home
  • Exhibitions
  • Artists
  • Viewing room
  • Press
  • Focus
  • Publications
  • Art Fairs
  • News
  • Contact
  • I.C. Editions
Menu

MAREN HASSINGER

  • Overview
  • Works
  • Exhibitions
  • Press
  • Publications
  • Video
  • Art Fairs
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Artwork composed of a horizontal bundle of wire rope

MAREN HASSINGER

Splintering (On Dangerous Ground), 1981/2023
Wire rope
15 x 60 x 12 in. each (Variation 4/10)
Dimensions vary slightly per unit
Copyright The Artist
View on a Wall
Taking a biomimetic approach to material, the artist weaves, gathers, and unravels strands of wire rope to form bundles of unnatural fiber. Splintering crafts sheaf-like organic forms from industrial materials...
Read more
Taking a biomimetic approach to material, the artist weaves, gathers, and unravels strands of wire rope to form bundles of unnatural fiber. Splintering crafts sheaf-like organic forms from industrial materials in a prescient look towards the future in the Age of the Anthropocene.

In 1981 Hassinger was invited by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to make work for a solo exhibition in their Gallery Six, a small grotto-like space tucked away in the bowels of the Museum. Hassinger approached the opportunity with some skepticism at this early stage in her career, finding the Museum context problematic as an artist whose practice championed the ephemeral in order to challenge societal values. Her response to the invitation was a modular installation titled On Dangerous Ground. Modular, understood as a single motif that repeated until it filled the space but was also temporary. Creating a natural environment from industrial man-made materials, spiky wire rope, Hassinger’s title references not only the threatening physical nature of the work but her own precarious position as an artist and woman of color. According to the artist, “the construction of these bushes (in their dissolution of form and their tumultuous placement) reflects the turmoil of contemporary urban reality where one feels a sense of confusion – a decline in the order of things, a profound sense of loss, vulnerability, and lack of “centeredness.” There’s a lot of diversity, but no divinity.” Splintering recreates one of the elements of the original installation now destroyed.
Close full details

Exhibitions

"Frieze Masters: Spotlight," Regent's Park, Gloucester Green, London, UK, 13 October 2023 - 15 October 2023. (Exhibition copy) 
"Passing Through," Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK, 2 October 2019 - 15 November 2019.
"On Dangerous Ground," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 21 May - 21 June, 1981. 
Share
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Previous
|
Next
40 
of  48
Manage cookies
© 2020 SUSAN INGLETT GALLERY
Site by Artlogic

522 West 24th Street New York NY 10011 212 647 9111 info@inglettgallery.com

Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Twitter, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
Send an email

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences
Close

Join our mailing list

Signup

* denotes required fields

Susan Inglett Gallery is committed to data security and to protecting your privacy. The gallery is in full compliance with requirements as stipulated by the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Should you wish to change, update or delete any of your details, please contact us.