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The artist Mary Heilmann
Born 1940, San Francisco, California, USA.
Born 1940, San Francisco, California, USA.
Lives and works in New York.
Style and technique of the artist: Painting,
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Mary Heilmann’s pictures assume a special position in the genre of abstract painting. Whereas autobiographical moments often provide a starting point for her works, the reduced forms and the choice of expressive color compositions frequently cite elements of the most diverse lifestyle and design cultures from the last decades. Styles are borrowed from abstract expressionism, Pop Art and geometric painting. The spaces of personal memory that flow into Mary Heilmann’s work are alluded to with associative titles…
Islands in the Stream
Mary Heilmann creates hybrid, eclectic compositions combining separate sections of pattern, each of which may be wildly different from the others…
"Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking"
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