ArtBabble: Mary Heilmann

Mary Heilmann: Abstract Painting

Art21 — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:13:25 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #116: Mary Heilmann describes a breakthrough she had of combining gestural and hard-edge abstracton in a single painting, combining the legacies of Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers.

Mary Heilmann: Home & Studio

Art21 — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:52:58 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #102: Mary Heilmann leads a tour of her home and studio on Long Island, pointing out how she’s modified the surrounding landscape and the ways in which the scenery has seeped into her paintings.

YOU DECIDE: Choose the 100th "Exclusive"

Art21 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:03:39 +0000

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We're inviting viewers to choose which video will be our 100th episode in the "Exclusive" series.

Will it be Mary Heilmann? William Kentridge? Beryl Korot? Julie Mehretu? Mike Kelley? YOU DECIDE!

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Mary Heilmann: Inspiration

Art21 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:19:13 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #079: In her Long Island studio, Mary Heilmann discusses two inspirations for her work: tea bowls that adhere to the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of "Wabi-sabi" and the cartoon color pallette used in "The Simpsons" television show. Heilmann contrasts her working method with that of the Abtract Expressionists, preferring to find "the easiest way to do it" which often involves thinking through the compositions and colors with a computer.

Oranges and Sardines Artist Talk

Hammer Museum — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:49:39 +0000

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HAMMER LECTURES

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Curator Gary Garrels in conversation with artists Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool.

Oranges and Sardines Walkthrough

Hammer Museum — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:22:17 +0000

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HAMMER LECTURES

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The title for the exhibition was borrowed from American poet Frank O’Hara’s poem Why I Am Not a Painter, which reflects on the elusiveness of the creative process, often resulting in a finished work that bears no resemblance to its initial inspiration. Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting hoped to offer manifold examples of abstraction's inventive potential and will suggest varied reasons why it remains vital and essential to contemporary art.

Mary Heilmann: Season 5 Preview (October 2009)

Art21 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:22:20 +0000

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This video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Fantasy premiering on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings).

Fantasy presents four artists—Cao Fei, Mary Heilmann, Jeff Koons, and Florian Maier-Aichen—whose hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime works transport us to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness.

"Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season Five Trailer (Fall 2009)

Art21 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:28:30 +0000

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Art21: First Look

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Season Five of the Peabody Award-winning television series "Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century" premieres on PBS in the United States (Fall 2009).

This trailer spotlights the artists Mary Heilmann, William Kentridge, and Yinka Shonibare MBE, offering brief glimpses of an additional eleven, dynamic and engaging contemporary artists.

Can you guess who they are? We're not telling (just yet).