Lee Bontecou - Los Angeles - female sculptor and abstract artist - Brief Article

UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM

In 1965, Donald Judd proclaimed Lee Bontecou "one of the best artists working anywhere." The sole woman in the early-'60s Castelli stable, Bontecou creatively bridged masculine and feminine, human and machine in her sculpture and drawing, exploring a kind of abstract cyborgian androgyny years ahead of its time. But by 1975, she dropped out, barely exhibiting since (though making new work all along) and refusing cooperation when others tried surveying her past. Now, in her first retrospective (curated by UCLA Hammer's Elizabeth A.T. Smith, James W. Alsdorf, and Ann Philbin), she's cooperating--and we all have some happy catching up to do. Oct. 5-Jan. 11; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Feb. 14, 2004-May 23, 2004; MOMA QNS, New York, July 28, 2004-Sept. 27, 2004.

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