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Five decades of Hassinger’s interdisciplinary inquiries into the body’s relationship to its environmentPublished with Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) .Los Angeles–born, New York–based artist Maren Hassinger’s (born 1947) practice emerged alongside and thematically with that of the other members of the 1970s avant-garde art collective Studio Z, including Senga Nengudi, David Hammons and Ulysses Jenkins. Across sculpture, performance, installation and video, Hassinger employs industrial, natural and everyday materials to address social and cultural issues dealing with our relationship to the environment. This book expands scholarship on Hassinger’s groundbreaking practice, featuring newly commissioned essays, a roundtable conversation and an interview with the artist. With robust archival photo essays that include documentation of never-before-seen works, a chronology and a comprehensive exhibition history, Living Moving Growing presents an unprecedented overview of the artist’s life and career.

This fully illustrated catalogue is the first comprehensive monograph on Alexis Smith in 30 years and presents the full range of the artist’s dynamic output, from her intimate artist books and collages to large wall paintings and installations. Providing new insights into Smith’s work, this volume connects the themes that have persisted throughout the artist’s career, from her exploration of identity and self-invention to her preoccupation with stereotypes and clichés in film and literature. This publication will introduce Smith’s expansive body of work to a new generation of viewers. Situated alongside movements of conceptual and pop art and shaped by the feminist movements of the 1970s, Smith’s singular career expands our understanding of American art and provokes us to think critically on the culture we share.Published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, 1 October 2022-26 February 2023