‘Converging Lines’ Looks at Intertwined Careers of Sol LeWitt & Eva Hesse @ClevelandArt

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New York-based artists Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt became friends in the late ’50s, a singularly fertile period for the art-making scene in New York, when artists and not high-end galleries and wealthy collectors dominated the scene. As a result, artists lived in proximity, hung out together and were spurred and influenced by each others’ work. So it was with Hesse and LeWitt, who were both exploring aspects of such budding ’60s art movements as minimalism and conceptual art.

Alas, Hesse had a short career, dying of brain cancer at the age of 34 in 1970. The slightly older LeWitt, who outlived her by nearly four decades, created Wall Drawing #46 in her honor after hearing of her death, paying tribute to her influence of his work. That influence is the subject of Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt. It opens at the Cleveland Museum of Art and will be on display through Sun 7/31 in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery, a reflection on how communities of artists can interact and elicit creative reponses from each other.

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