Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside

Contemporary Art

1973/printed 1998

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
American, born 1939

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Title: Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Medium: 12 gelatin silver prints, resin coated, and 2 photocopied text panels
Edition: Artist's proof 1 of 1, from an edition of 2, plus 1 exhibition copy
Dimensions: One 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.), eleven 50.8 × 40.6 cm ( 20 x 16 in.)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Betty and Edward Harris
Reference Number: Obj: 218715

Miwon Kwon, “In Appreciation of Invisible Work: Mierle Laderman Ukeles and the Maintenance of the ‘White Cube’,” Documents, no. 10 (Fall 1997), 15-18 (ill.).
Sherry Buckberrough and Andrea Miller-Keller, Mierle Laderman Ukeles | MATRIX 137, exh. (Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Antheneum, 1998), 5, 6 (ill.), 12.
Patricia Rosoff, “The Radical Art of Caring: Mierle Laderman Ukeles makes herself at home at the Wadsworth Atheneum,” The Hartford Advocate, Sept. 24, 1998, 17 (ill.).
Jessica Weisberg, “The Hardworking Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles Is Here To Clean Up Your Mess,” Tablet Magazine, July 22, 2013 (ill.), https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/mierle-laderman-ukeles
Matthew S. Witkovsky et al., “The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media,” eds. Antawan I. Byrd, Elizabeth Siegel, and Carl Fuldner, pl. 328, p. 335 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).

Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, Mierle Laderman Ukeles | MATRIX 137, Sept. 20–Nov. 15, 1998, no cat. no. (edition 1 of 2)
Innsbruck, Galerie im Taxispalais, Work/Labor, June 4–Aug. 14, 2004; University College Cork, May 16–Aug. 13, 2006; Belfast, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Nov. 16–Dec. 22, 2006.
New York, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art Work, 1969–1979, May 8–June 13, 1998.
East Hampton, Guild Hall, Personal and Political: The Women’s Art Movement, 1969 - 1975, Aug. 10–Oct. 20, 2002.
Denver, Mize! Center for Arts and Culture, Upstarts and Matriarchs: Jewish Women Artists and the Transformation of American Art, Jan. 13–Mar. 27, 2005.
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Exceeding Paint/Expanding Painting, May 20–July 16, 2005.
Florence, Quarter Centro Produzione Arte, The Gesture: A Visual Library in Progress, Oct. 6–Nov. 12, 2005.
Stedelijk Museum, Mapping the Studio, May 11–Aug. 21, 2006.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Mar. 4–July 16, 2007; Washing D. C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, Sept. 21–Dec. 16, 2007; Long Island City, P.S. l Contemporary Art Center, Feb. 17–May 12, 2008; Vancouver Art Gallery, Oct. 4, 2008–Jan. 18, 2009.
Grazer Kunst-Verein, Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art Works 1969-1980, Mar. 9–May 19, 2013.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Homebodies, June 29–Oct. 2013.
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art Works 1969-1980, Oct. 11–Nov. 29, 2014
Sandyberg ,Marabouparken, Maintenance Art Works from 1969 - 1980, Jan. 1–Apr. 26, 2015.
Seoul, Coreana Museum of Art, Homework Work Home, Apr. 4–June 15, 2018.
Arles, LUMA–Pare des Ateliers, Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844-2018, Oct. 12, 2018–Jan.6, 2019.
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Counter Landscapes: Performance Actions from the 1970’s, Oct. 26, 2019–Jan. 26, 2020.

The artist; sold through Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, to Betty and Ed Harris, Chicago, Mar. 13, 2013; promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 8, 2022

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