Hannah Wilke: Drawings and Performalist Self-Portraits opens at Marc Selwyn Fine Art

Marc Selwyn Fine Art presents Hannah Wilke: Drawings and Performalist Self-Portraits, its third solo exhibition of the late American artist. A pioneering figure in feminist art, Wilke explored issues of beauty, gender, and Western cultural conventions through a multidisciplinary practice that included photography, performance, video, sculpture, and drawing. Among the first artists to reclaim and challenge the traditional male gaze, Wilke transformed representations of the female body into acts of celebration and self-determination. Aligning herself with the women’s movement of the 1960s, her work merged Post-Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism, and second-wave feminism, establishing her as one of the most influential—yet historically underrecognized—artists of the late twentieth century. Drawing was central to Wilke’s practice from its earliest stages. Beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s, her works on paper explored the physical and conceptual ideas that woul