"We only move into the 21st century on the foundation of things that have been established long, long ago."
"Clubchair 46" (2008)
"Clubchair 46," 2008
Painted wood with nylon webbing, 26 1/4 x 17 1/2 x 19 inches
© Mary Heilmann
Courtesy the artist, 303 Gallery, New York and Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London
Painted wood with nylon webbing, 26 1/4 x 17 1/2 x 19 inches
© Mary Heilmann
Courtesy the artist, 303 Gallery, New York and Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London
"I was a sculptor and couldn’t get attention for my sculpture so I started making paintings. I didn’t really study painting in school, but I remember friends who were studying painting at Yale in the ’60s where the big thing was looking hard at a painting and trying to decide if it worked or not."
-Mary Heilmann



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