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Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures (Hardcover)
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Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures (Hardcover)
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The catalogue to accompany a major solo presentation of the work of
the influential New York-based artist Mary Heilmann, her first in a
public institution in the UK in 15 years. Born in California in
1940, Heilmann studied ceramics and poetry before moving to New
York in 1968 and taking up painting. A pioneer of infusing abstract
painting with influences from craft traditions and popular culture
(especially rock music and California's beach culture), Heilmann is
one of the most important yet still underrecognised artists working
today. This publication explores Heilmann's approach to abstraction
from two distinct but interrelated perspectives: the formal and the
personal. The personal is reflected in the title Looking at
Pictures, named after a section in the artist's memoir The All
Night Movie (1999), in which she writes, `Each of my paintings can
be seen as an autobiographical marker', clearly represented here
through works that relate to moments in the artist's friendships,
memories of places where she has lived or spent time and her love
of music and film. The juxtaposing formal aspect of her work is
also explored, most evidently in her early paintings of grids and
squares rendered in primary colours and in works that are based on
architectural or interior planes, such as doors and mirrors. As
well as new essays by Lydia Yee (Chief Curator, Whitechapel
Gallery) and Briony Fer (Professor of History of Art, University
College London), and writings by the artist on key works, the
publication will feature 100 beautiful full-colour illustrations of
paintings, works on paper, furniture and ceramics from Heilmann's
five-decade career.
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