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The exhibition “Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone” at the New Museum is the first solo show and retrospective of Mary Heilmann’s work in a New York museum. Mary Heilmann (born 1940 in San Francisco) is one of the most influential abstract painters of her generation and considered as a “painter’s painter”. In her work she mixes abstraction with elements from pop culture and craft traditions. Mary Heilmann’s work has been deeply influenced “by her personal experiences, including a childhood and adolescence split between Los Angeles-area beaches and Bay Area beatnik clubs. The impact of this thoroughly West Coast childhood is seen in the vibrant, lusty color palette, sense of boundless possibility, and experimentation for which Heilmann’s paintings are known.” (excerpt from the press release).
Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone, New Museum, New York. Opening reception, October 20, 2008.
PS: See also the episode “Mary Heilmann: Saturday Night Kiss at Hauser & Wirth Zurich” 2006.

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In honor of its tenth edition, The Armory Show has commissioned artists Mary Heilmann and John Waters to collaborate on the visual identity of the 10th edition of the Armory Show. At the press conference they talk about the early days of The Armory Show as the Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair and the fair’s late founders Pat Hearn and Colin de Land. March 26, 2008.

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Hauser & Wirth Zurich present a solo exhibition by the American artist Mary Heilmann. On display are a selection of works on paper and prints dating from the years 1980-2006. Mary Heilmann (born 1940) lives and works in New York. “She is considered one of the most influential abstract painters of her generation. Born and educated in California, she moved to New York in 1968, where she rubbed shoulders with many exponents of Minimalism and Pop Art. While her painting developed alongside these stylistic trends of the 1960s and 70s, it is not readily categorized in terms of a specific formal language. Rather, her oeuvre is highly original and the playful abstract images that she has created over the last three decades of her career are timeless.” (PR Hauser & Wirth). Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Löwenbräu Areal, Zürich / Switzerland. Season opening, August 25, 2006.
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