Alexandra Schwartz

Agnes Denes in conversation with Alexandra Schwartz

Born in Budapest and raised in Stockholm and New York, Agnes Denes is associated with a number of art movements, including Conceptual art, Environmental and Land art. Emerging in the late 1960s, she became known for her large-scale site-specific works and Earthworks.

Excerpt of email from Eleanor Antin to Alexandra Schwartz

North American artist and author Eleanor Antin works in performance, video, film, drawing and writing. In 1965, she began her first Conceptual artwork, titled Blood of a Poet Box (1965–1968) and comprising one hundred glass slides containing blood specimens collected from one hundred poets, in homage to Jean Cocteau’s 1930s film Blood of a Poet.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles in conversation with Alexandra Schwartz

Based in New York City, Mierle Laderman Ukeles is known for her feminist, service-oriented artwork and performances. In 1969, she wrote a manifesto titled ‘Maintenance Art – Proposal for an Exhibition’, challenging the domestic role of women and proclaiming herself a ‘maintenance artist’. Lippard first met Ukeles in 1971 as a result of her interest in this project, and Ukeles’s Maintenance Art Tasks (1973) were then developed as part of ‘c.7,500’.

Alice Aycock in conversation with Alexandra Schwartz

In 1968, North American artist Alice Aycock moved to New York to study a Masters in Studio Art at Hunter College under Robert Morris. In the late 1960s she developed site-related works primarily made from wood and stone, referring to machinery and construction sites, architectural models, archaeological sites and public or social settings.