Mary Heilmann, 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘺 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭, 2020. Acrylic and wood on canvas, 9 x 18-1/4 x 1-1/8 inches (22.26 x 46.355 x 2.8575 cm). Photo by Dan Bradica. ©Mary Heilmann. Image courtesy of the artist, 303 Gallery, New York, and Hauser & Wirth.
Marks Family Gallery North and Tito Spiga Exhibition Space
Mary Heilmann: Water Way will be the artist’s first significant solo presentation with an institution on the East End of Long Island, where she has been an integral part of the region’s creative community for decades. From California to New York City to Bridgehampton, Heilmann has prioritized living in close proximity to water, which has had a profound influence on her life and work. Whether as a direct image or referential title, water has long been a recurring theme throughout her practice.
Guild Hall is pleased to realize an exhibition that Heilmann has had a strong desire to stage—one that brings together over 45 works of a focused area of her output, spanning from the 1980s through the present.
This exhibition is organized by Melanie Crader, director of visual arts with Philippa Content, museum registrar and exhibition coordinator.
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Mary Heilmann
Mary Heilmann was born in 1940 in San Francisco, California. She earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1962), and an MA from the University of California, Berkeley (1967). She moved to New York the following year, in 1968. Since then, Heilmann’s work has appeared in three Whitney Biennial exhibitions (1972, 1989, 2008) and is included in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco MoMA, National Gallery of Art, the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Netherlands, and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017), was a United States Artists Oliver Fellow (2014), has received the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award (2006) and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. “Mary Heilmann: Starry Night” an early body of work is currently on exhibit at Dia Beacon NY. Mary Heilmann lives and works in Bridgehampton, New York and New York City.
Heilmann is represented by Hauser & Wirth and 303 Gallery, New York.
Photo: Jo Ann Comfort
Sponsors
Visual Arts programs are supported by funding from The Michael Lynne Museum Endowment and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.
Additional support provided by Friends of the Museum: Sara Amani and Timothy Ward, Danielle Anderman, Shari and Jeff Aronson, The Artist Profile Archive, Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann, Cara and John Fry, Susan Lacy, Robert Longo and Sophie Chahinian, Onna House, Lisa and Richard Perry, Laurie and Martin Scheinman, Jeff and Audrey Spiegel, Hillary and Jeff Suchman, Barbara Tober, Jane Wesman and Don Savelson, Neda Young, and an anonymous donor.
Free gallery admission is sponsored, in part, by Landscape Details.