Ana Mendieta died in 1985, in New York City, when she was only 36. She fell from the window of her apartment on the building’s 34th floor. Her husband, the minimalist sculptor Carl André, was the only other person in the apartment and neighbors heard the couple fighting. Push? Accident? Suicide? A judge acquitted André, but what happened is still murky. Despite her early death, the Cuban artist amassed a vast body of work. Mendieta was an accomplished sculptor, painter, and video artist. Her themes were feminism, violence, and identity. Many of her works draw from Afro-Cuban traditions, specifically, the ethic of reconnecting with the earth. “Through my earth/body sculptures,” she once said, “I become an extension of nature, and nature becomes an extension of my body.” This exhibition features work created by Mendieta between 1972 and 1985, and covers the time she spent in Iowa, Mexico, and Cuba. —Elena Clavarino