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Byline: Dodie Kazanjian
There's always this glimmer when you mention Mary Heilmann," says Elizabeth Armstrong, chief curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, in California. "It's as though everybody has been seduced at least once by a Heilmann painting." It happened to me way back in January 1987, when I saw her painting The Beach House. I was interviewing Pat Hearn, who had recently become Heilmann's dealer, and my eyes kept going back to the blue-and-white canvas that hung beside Hearn's desk. It was minimal but raw, an empty, sensuously brushed, somewhat sloppy blue square on an even emptier white ground, yet it contained a world of associations: water, ...