How Much a Heart Can Hold

How Much a Heart Can Hold invites the viewer to explore Petah Coyne's 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 was 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. The Lowe Art Museum's presentation was made possible by Beaux Arts Miami; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; the Funding Arts Network; the City of Coral Gables; Galerie Lelong, New York; the Lowe Advisory Council; and Lowe Members. It was sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts.