Mary Heilmann: Long Line
Opening Apr 2025
Mary Heilmann, Long Line (detail), 2020. Acrylic on wood panel, 24 × 96 × 3.25 in. (60.96 × 243.84 × 8.26 cm). Collection of Megan & Mark Dowley. Courtesy of the Artist, 303 Gallery, New York, and Hauser & Wirth. © Mary Heilmann. Photograph by Thomas Barrat
Inspired by Mary Heilmann’s expansive practice and ethos of social connection, this new site-specific project celebrates the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Whitney Museum’s downtown building, for which Heilmann (b.1940, San Francisco, CA) created Sunset (2015) on the fifth-floor terrace. That project, which included a large-scale reproduction of a vibrant painting, a film, and Heilmann’s signature Monochrome Chairs, inaugurated the Museum’s largest outdoor gallery and transformed it into a site of reverie, memory, and leisure.
Mary Heilmann: Long Line further considers the relationship between the Museum's architecture and the city. Heilmann's immersive environment includes a hand-painted enlargement of her 2020 painting Long Line, as well as a variety of chairs related to furniture she has displayed in homes and exhibitions. Serving as elements in her larger composition, this furniture also encourages visitors to recharge and interact with one another and the environment outside the Museum.
Mary Heilmann: Long Line is organized by Laura Phipps, Associate Curator.