Mary Heilmann
Mary Anne Heilmann (born January 3, 1940 in San Francisco , California ) lives and works in New York . She is one of the most influential abstract painters of her generation.
Life
Born and raised in California, she studied at UCSB and UC Berkeley and moved to New York in 1968, where she was the companion of many representatives of Minimalism and Pop Art . Although her painting developed parallel to these stylistic movements of the 1960s and 1970s, her art cannot be assigned to a specific formal language. The works are non-representational and the artist works with a clearly geometric vocabulary of forms.
Despite her early move to New York, with which Mary Heilmann switched from sculpture to painting at the same time, her experiences from childhood on the west coast and perhaps also a longing for it are impressively illustrated by her compositions with an abstract language of forms and clear color symbolism occupied with diverse associations. She still feels strongly connected to the beach culture of California, especially the surfing culture, and the beat generation with which she identified in her youth. In combination with the picture titles, references are made to encounters and experiences, historical and everyday events and occurrences, film and music titles, or simple objects from their immediate surroundings.
In 2017 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Exhibitions
In addition to solo exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth Zurich (2006), the Secession in Vienna (2003), the Camden Arts Center in London (2001) and the Art Museum St.Gallen (2000), she took part in important exhibitions such as 'The Broken Mirror' in the Kunsthalle Wien (1993/94) and 'nuevas abstracciones' in the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid (1996). In 2007, the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach (CA) dedicated a comprehensive exhibition to her, which was then shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in Houston , Texas , at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus (OH), and in 2008 at the New Museum of Contemporary Kind of seen in New York.
- 2010: Mary Heilmann , Museum Ludwig , Cologne .
- 2013: Mary Heilmann - Good Vibrations , Bonnefantenmuseum , Maastricht and then Neues Museum , Nuremberg .
- 2014/2015: Mary Heilmann & David Reed. , Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin .
literature
- Paula van den Bosch (Ed.): Mary Heilmann - Good Vibrations , König, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86335-246-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 15, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heilmann, Mary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heilmann, Mary Anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American abstract painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California |