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She began her career as a sculptor, utilizing both conventional and unorthodox materials, from ceramic and porcelain to bubble gum, pencil erasers, Play-Doh, laundry lint, and cookie dough. Her sculptures evoke both the body and the natural world, as seen in Untitled, whose delicate folds recall seed pods, shells, and flowers, as well as female genitalia, a symbol of female empowerment commonly employed by feminists. Such works also speak to contemporaneous developments in sculpture, particularly process-based, post-Minimalist sculpture, christened by the critic Lucy Lippard as \"eccentric abstraction.\"\r\nS.O.S. Starification Object Series represents one of Wilke’s earliest experiments with performance. A deeply ambiguous work, it embraces sensuality at the same time that it mocks male desire and satirizes gender stereotypes. Wilke’s pose recalls that of a pin-up. The aura of impeccable glamour she projects, however, is disrupted by the pieces of gum — chewed and kneaded to resemble vulvas — that mar her otherwise flawless back. According to the artist, these \"wounds\" symbolized women’s second-class status, their \"disposability.\" They might also allude to Christian stigmata or the scarification rituals of tribal cultures. The work’s title is rife with contradictions: it blurs the distinction between \"stars\" and \"scars,\" suggesting that glamour is inextricable from injury and female beauty from distress. ","remarks":"see also 2011-116"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\r\nWilke was an influential feminist artist whose work in sculpture and performance art challenged gender stereotypes and probed the relationships among aesthetics, eroticism, and politics. She began her career as a sculptor, creating pieces in clay and terracotta whose forms are both organic and corporeal. Here, the sculpture’s delicate folds suggest seedpods, shells, or flowers as well as female genitalia, a common symbol of women’s empowerment in the 1970s.\r\nIn addition to terracotta and clay, Wilke also used less conventional materials for her sculptures, including bubble gum, pencil erasers, Play-Doh, laundry lint, and cookie dough.","remarks":"PBL April 2014 rotation"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"[Alison Jacques Gallery, London, United Kingdom], sold; to Princeton University Art Museum, 2011.","remarks":"as per curatorial file. AP. 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