SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME / MARY HEILMANN

You want beauty? I'll give you beauty!/Mary HeilmannMary Heilmann is one of the most important abstract painters of her generation. Her distinctively fluid, humorous, and bright canvases combine the modes of Abstract Expressionism with a vibrant Pop sensibility. H eilmannn's 1979 painting in hot pink and black, evocatively titled Save the Last Dance for Me, marked a shift in the artist's perspe ctive. Heilmann describes it: Now the work came from a different place. Instead of working out of modernist non-image formalism...