Eva Hesse Drawing

Unlike the writer with whom she shares a surname, Eva Hesse is one of those artists who really never goes out of favor. Sure, there’s nothing like a tragic, early death to provoke and sustain interest (she succumbed to a brain tumor in 1970, at the age of thirty-four), but the fact remains that work from this German-born artist, who fled the Nazis with her parents as a toddler, seems as fresh and exciting today as it did four decades ago. This exhibit in particular has been praised for largely setting aside the drama and promise of Hesse’s life story in favor of focusing on the evolving relationship between her drawings (including collages and gouaches) and her sculptures, tracing Hesse’s innovations in both media. Supplementing some 150 drawings are several “relief drawings” incorporating papier-mâché, cord, and paint, as well as “test pieces” conceived as a form of three-dimensional drawing using materials (including latex) that were very nontraditional at the time. 612-375-7622; www.walkerart.org