Untitled (Sea Anemone)

© Maren Hassinger, photo courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
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Untitled (Sea Anemone)

1971
Sculpture
Wire rope
143 × 36 × 25 in. (363.22 × 91.44 × 63.5 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Modern and Contemporary Art Council (M.2019.205)
Modern Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Long before the term “intersectional” was coined in 1989, Maren Hassinger’s work simultaneously addressed issues of feminism, environmentalism, and racism....
Long before the term “intersectional” was coined in 1989, Maren Hassinger’s work simultaneously addressed issues of feminism, environmentalism, and racism. “I’m always interested by what is around me. Not only visually, but the intellectual part, the emotional part,” she has explained. Untitled (Sea Anemone), made of twisted and intertwined wire rope that suggests organic forms, is one of her signature floor-and wall-bound sculptures. Hassinger relates the twisted wire to the umbilical cord, something shared by all mammals. Untitled also suggests the delicate beauty of the sea anemone, and alludes to both its predatory nature and its precarious existence in coastal tropical waters now threatened by ocean warming and chemical runoff. Born and educated in Los Angeles, Hassinger was the first Black artist to have a solo exhibition at LACMA, in 1981, but it would be almost forty years before a work by her entered the collection.

Wall label, 2021.
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