Ana Mendieta December 1, 2011

Emerging in the early 1970s amid burgeoning new genres of art making including land art, performance art, film and video, and feminist practices, Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta developed a deeply personal, experimental, and largely ephemeral oeuvre consisting chiefly of performative actions that she described as "earth-body sculptures." Highlighted in this presentation are important works by Mendieta that have been generously promised to the Art Institute by Diane and Bruce Halle, forming the basis for the single largest institutional collection of the artist's work.