CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/25/2016

Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures

How we love Looking at Pictures, the beautiful, generous, and yet not overdone new Mary Heilmann monograph from Whitechapel Gallery. In addition to paintings, the book reproduces works on paper, ceramics and furniture. "It is kind of a philosophical idea, a truth, that any object of art is really made out of all the other objects of art that come before it and at the same time," Heilmann is quoted in Iwona Blazwick's Introduction. "She uses the logic of geometry, plane and seriality to express the organic, the subjective and the lyrical. Geometric abstraction in Heilmann's hands, acts as a membrane with which to capture the spirit of an age."