How Much A Heart Can Hold invites the viewer to explore Petah COYNE’s (ACC grants between 1990-1994) work as a multifaceted and long-running conversation about the complexity and creativity of women.

It is divided into three sections: Women’s Work, Women’s Relationships, and Women Obscured & Transformed. Originally intended as an exhibition organizational structure that avoided the pull of a chronological arrangement, it is now clear that all the works reside in each of the categories, and now these three threads weave and plait together as part of a more nuanced understanding not only of Coyne’s oeuvre, but also how a single artist’s work is intertwined and in dialogue with friends and creatives both near in time and space, and long past or far afield.

Petah Coyne: How Much a Heart Can Hold is organized by the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Generous support for this exhibition was provided by Stephen and Pamela Hootkin, and the Anonymous Fund.