Hauser & Wirth Southampton presents an exhibition of works by Mary Heilmann
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Saturday, November 2, 2024


Hauser & Wirth Southampton presents an exhibition of works by Mary Heilmann
Installation view, ‘Mary Heilmann. Highway, Oceans, Daydreams’, Hauser & Wirth Southampton, 2020 © Mary Heilmann. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and 303 Gallery, New York.



SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- For over 25 years, preeminent American artist Mary Heilmann has been living and working between New York City and the oceanside hamlet of Bridgehampton on Long Island’s storied East End. Hauser & Wirth Southampton is presenting ‘Highway, Oceans, Daydreams,’ an exhibition that juxtaposes new paintings Heilmann has completed over the months of the pandemic while sequestered in Bridgehampton, with earlier works that find her recalling the landscapes of her life.

‘Highway, Oceans, Daydreams’ is the first public exhibition at Hauer & Wirth’s Southampton location, which opened in July 2020 as a private viewing space.




From the onset of the global pandemic in March through September of this year, Heilmann remained in Bridgehampton, marking the longest consecutive period she has ever spent at her Long Island studio. During these months she immersed herself in the mutable conditions of light, air, and colors specific to the oceanfront environment, channeling her observations into new paintings that expand upon her ongoing fascination with waves and water. Drawing from a life lived on both coasts (Heilmann’s childhood and college years were informed by her immersion in California’s landscape and surf culture), the new works on view in this exhibition synthesize her memories of the scenic highways and coastal vistas of her youth with the ever changing, elusive geometries of Atlantic Ocean waves.

‘Highway, Oceans, Daydreams’ spotlights Heilmann’s distinctively sculptural approach to paint and unique ability to elicit complex associations through deceptively simple forms. In contrast to earlier paintings that depict water, the new works find her taking a more formalist approach, creating representations of a wave’s spirals, tubes, and undulations. To evoke the texture of sand, Heilmann has employed here, for the first time, a grainy medium mixed into her paint to enhance its thickness and tactility. Her teal blue waters sport frothy white crests that rise on the surface of shaped canvases ranging from as small as four by six inches, to as large as eight feet wide. That her waves envelop the viewer at every scale, is a testament to Heilmann’s virtuosity.

Coupled alongside these new paintings, ‘Highway, Oceans, Daydreams’ will feature older works that contextualize the sculptural ambition of her brightly painted shaped canvases, as well as Heilmann’s stained wood panels that incorporate the underlying woodgrain into their composition. All of her varied techniques on view reinforce the artist’s consistent inventiveness and deep connection with the boundless unknowability of the ocean and the landscape of her America.

Heilmann has been a longstanding member of the New York City and Hamptons art communities since she arrived from California in 1968. Moving to the East Coast prompted a paradigmatic shift in the artist’s practice as she moved her focus from sculpture to painting. While the latter medium was proclaimed ‘dead’ by contemporary artists and critics, Heilmann undertook a conscious effort to challenge expectations, contradict art historical traditions, and provoke conversation by prioritizing a loose handling of paint and foreground evidence of her hand and process within each work. Her work ultimately served not only to further painting as a medium, but also to disrupt prevailing theories of the hard-edge and color field movements of the 1960s and ‘70s. Over the course of the ensuing decades, she has emerged as a significant American master who has exerted a profound influence upon a younger group of artists, not only through her technique and spatially dichotomous compositions, but also through her teachings and lectures.










Today's News

November 2, 2020

Two museums tried to sell art. Only one caught grief about it.

Coronavirus shutdown a 'slap' for German cultural world

Exhibition features Kwong Lum's unrestrained freehand cursive calligraphy

Lark Mason Associates presents 'Strictly Private: A Collection of Erotic Works by Duncan Grant' on igavelauctions

Large public outdoor exhibition in Berlin celebrates Helmut Newton's 100th anniversary

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch is "reunited" with visitors at the Museo del Prado

The British Museum opens the first major exhibition on the history of the Arctic and its Indigenous Peoples

Exhibition features works by female artists who expanded the orthodox category of Minimal art

Hauser & Wirth Southampton presents an exhibition of works by Mary Heilmann

Pandemic-hit Mexico marks somber Day of the Dead

The Macallan Red Collection sells for $975,756 - Ultimate Whisky Collection Part II realises $1.4 million

Glasgow artist launches plastic bag museum

American electronic, kinetic, and robotic sculptor Alan Rath dies at age 60

Waldo opens an exhibition of work by Carlos Reyes

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco exhibition showcases Bay Area artists

Phillips to offer Heuer Monaco Worn by Steve McQueen for the 1971 film Le Mans

Cut off from the world again, Australia now finds silver linings

Art Institute of Chicago opens Jo Ractliffe's first-ever retrospective

Sean Connery: From tentative secret agent to suave Bond

Weinberg/Newton Gallery partners with ACLU to present exhibition on voting rights

Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Den Haag reflects the current trend for bright colours in fashion

Peru's Machu Picchu reopens after Covid lockdown

The Museo Reina Sofía opens an exhibition of works by Anna-Eva Bergman

The lasting legacy of Irma Stern explained by South Africa's leading women in the arts

Hoffa Host Bar Job: Everything You Need to Know to Become a Host bar Player

4 Reasons Why You Keep Seeing the Angel Number 333 in Your Life

What Makes A Robust Buffer Tube Kit For Gun Lovers?




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Attorneys
Truck Accident Attorneys
Accident Attorneys
Holistic Dentist
Abogado de accidentes
สล็อต
สล็อตเว็บตรง

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site Parroquia Natividad del Señor
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful