Hannah Wilke

SAINT LOUIS, MO — Hannah Wilke (1940 – 1993) used sculpture, photography, video and works on paper to create an unabashedly boundary-crossing creative practice. Her experimental techniques and daring new forms reflect the vigor and joys of the body, making her one of the most important American painters of the 1960s.

Painter, performance artist, sculptor, photographer, video artist: Hannah Wilke didn’t limit her artistic imagination to merely one medium. And the sheer scope of her work is reflected in “Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake,” an exhibition opening June 4 at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Wilke, who died in 1993 at...

An exhibition of 100 artworks by Hannah Wilke, whose photos, sculptures, drawings and other pieces often shocked viewers in the 1960s-1990s, will open at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation on June 4. The museum describes Wilke as a "trailblazer whose efforts to develop an exceptional artistic practice were inextricably tied to...