For Clyde and Anna Lee
 
2017

"Hillary Wagner’s work ["For Clyde and Anna Lee"] explores the complexities of memory through images and materials recovered from her grandparents’ now-abandoned dairy farm in southwestern Ohio. In the exhibition, Wagner has produced an installation that effectively recreates an image from her childhood in the physical form of a steel tank used for keeping milk fresh before pasteurization. The steel tank, with its swirling milk, is paired with found drawings and documents from her grandparents ... Together these elements recall not only a specific place and moment in time, but also the attempt to recover a bond between the artist and her family."

- Chelsea Haines, Curator of "Second Nature" Parsons School of Design 2017 Thesis Exhibition