Mary Heilmann, Surfing on Acid

Mary Heilmann, Surfing on Acid, 2005. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches.

“I came to New York expecting to align myself with the sculptors, like Smithson. . . . I thought I would be part of that gang. Of course, that doesn’t happen so easily. I wasn’t invited into the Smithson/Serra gang. So I switched my practice rather vocally to painting, because they all hated painting.”
—Mary Heilmann in Artforum, November 2007

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