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Offering up a rarely seen side of Hannah Wilke, the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, NY, just opened Hannah Wilke: Gestures. The show covers Wilke’s early sculptural work in ceramics and attempts to show the influence of these early experiments on her later work. This exhibition will be on view until January 25th.

(Hannah Wilke, Fork and Spoon, 1974. Kneaded erasers, metal utensils, 7 3/8 inches, fork, 7 1/4 inches, spoon. Courtesy of Neuberger Museum of Art.)

This Monday, October 27th, feminist artist Chitra Ganesh will be participating in “The Skeptics,” a panel discussion at the New York Theatre Workshop in Manhattan, presented by Full Spectrum. Ganesh, along with the other participating panelists, including writer Faith Adiele, transmedia artist Ebon Fisher, writer/musician Kyle Jarrow, and filmmaker Helen Whitney, and moderator Jennifer Michael Hecht, will be investigating the roles of doubt and faith in the search for meaning.

(Chitra Ganesh, Furious Faze, from Restless Magicians and Forgotten Fugitives installation, 2008, photograph, 14 x 20 inches. Courtesy of the artist.)

Floating World: New Paintings by Duston Spear is in its last week at Sara Tecchia Roma Gallery in Manhattan. Inspired by such greats as Joan Snyder and Lee Krasner in this latest series, Spear embraces both repetition and the decorative in her painted collages which portray the divisiveness of battle. This show closes October 31st.

(Duston Spear, Yasmina, 2008, Oil, collage, spray paint on canvas, 67” X 76”. Courtesy of the artist.)

Women’s Work? Two Exhibitions Looking at Women’s Bodies of/as Work is currently on view at the Berman Museum at Ursinus College. This intriguing exhibition combines the work of 19th century quilt makers with the work of contemporary textile artists Tamar Stone and Christine LoFaso. This exhibition will be up until December 7th.

(Tamar Stone, The Vital System, “Good Sense,” “Little Beauty”, with detail (right), c. 2000. Artist’s book made from doll corset, embroidery. Courtesy of the artist.)

Yoko Ono’s Fly will be closing this Sunday October 26th, at the Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. This exhibition includes Fly, 1970, a 25 min film, as well as two new works, Telephone piece for Warsaw, 2008 and Memory Painting, 2008.

(Yoko Ono, still from Fly, 1970, 25 min film. Courtesy of Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle.)

The Andrea Rosen Gallery opens Willem de Kooning, Lucio Fontana, Eva Hesse this Saturday, October 25th. This show includes some of Eva Hesse’s early paintings from the 1950’s and ‘60s. Don’t miss the chance to see the work of this historic artist!

(Eva Hesse, No title, c. 1962, Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 49.5 inches. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery.)

Also, be sure to check out “Lesbian Art and Artists in New York City”, the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art’s panel discussion this Saturday, October 25th, featuring artists from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation. For more information, click here!