Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Here she speaks about her influences and her work Up To and Including Her Limits (1973-76). Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and drawing; her moving body becomes a measure of concentration, the sustained and variable movements of her extended drawing hand creates a dense web of strokes and marking.
Carolee Schneemann: Up to and Including Her Limits
She was suspended in a harness, nude and drew on the wall and floor with a crayon. Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Included in the exhibition are photographs of Schneemann from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera (1963), Portrait Partials (1970/2007), and Up to and Including Her Limits–Blue (1973–76/2011) – revolutionary works that subverted the idea of women’s bodies existing merely as an object for the delectation of men. She received a B.A. Carolee Schneemann, Up to and Including Her Limits-Blue, 1973-76/2011 Photo: Henrik Gaard Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Carolee Schneemann, “Up to and Including Her Limits,” (1973-76), crayon on paper, rope, harness, Super 8mm film projector, video (color, sound; 29 min. Available for sale from P.P.O.W, Carolee Schneemann, Up to and Including Her Limits (1973-1976), Gelatin silver print, 12 3/4 × 9 1/4 in March 7, 2020 Hales is pleased to announce the inclusion of Carolee Schneemann in the exhibition Up to and Including Limits: After Carolee Schneemann at Muzeum Susch.Curated by Sabine Breitwieser, the exhibition takes the influential work of the late American artist Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) as a point of departure, illuminating how Schneemann’s artistic legacy resonates in the … She had to wait until 1996 for a modest museum survey: “Carolee Schneemann: Up to and Including Her Limits,” organized by Dan Cameron at the New Museum in Manhattan. Schneemann’s oeuvre, like Pollock's, has influenced generations of artists, and it is impossible to imagine that the American artist Matthew Barney was not influenced in his Drawing Restraint series by Up To And Including Her Limits, which prefigures, by about 15 years, his use of rope and harness restraints as impediments or defining constraints on drawing actions. Carolee Schneemann’s Up To And Including Her Limits combines a variety of mediums all while exemplifying Schneemann’s distinctive style.Her use of performance, painting, and video art create a towering layered art piece that showcase her preferred mediums and styles. Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and drawing; her moving body becomes a measure of concentration, the sustained and variable movements of her extended drawing hand creates a dense web of strokes and marking. Available for sale from P.P.O.W, Carolee Schneemann, Up To and Including Her Limits (Studiogalerie Berlin) (1976), Gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 × 6 3/4 in Carolee Schneemann: Up to and Including Her Limits [Stiles, Kristine, Cameron, Dan, Strauss, David Levi] on Amazon.com. The art world lost ground-breaking performance artist and painter Carolee Schneemann yesterday. Inspired by the physicality of Pollock's painting technique, Schneemann translated that gesture into performance. She began drawing at a young age and cites this as an early premonition about her future career. She visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a young adult and recalls feeling a strong connection to the artwork.
In November 2011, I spent the better part of a week hanging out with Carolee Schneemann.