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Sculpture by Lisa Hoke, Manifold Destiny (mufflers and pink and yellow webbing, 10' x 5', 1991. The image illustrates a middle stage and body of work in Lisa Hoke's art: her more playful hanging sculptures and installations that reworked elements of Pop assemblage and Arte Povera through a process-oriented, feminist sensibility, utilizing unmistakable household and auto-part detritus. In this work, she created a hanging assemblage of yellow and pink plastic patio furniture stripping increasingly entangled in rusted car mufflers and snaking exhaust pipes that critics described as funny and frightening, vulnerable and threatening, delicate and Herculean. This project and similar works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and commissioned by museums.

Artist Lisa Hoke. Copyright held by the artist.

Lisa Hoke

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a middle stage and body of work in the career of Lisa Hoke, which began in the 1990s, when she shifted toward denser, more playful hanging pieces that reworked the low-brow, recycled junk aesthetic of Pop assemblage and Arte Povera through a process-oriented, feminist sensibility. These sculptures and installations utilized unmistakable household and auto-part detritus saturated with usage and the chaos of life, their functionality introducing open-ended social and psychological shadings into the work, as well as random color and texture. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this key development in her career, which brought ongoing recognition through exhibitions in major venues, coverage by major critics in publications, and institutional commissions. Hoke's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Lisa Hoke, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.