"The man even had a name—Clement Greenberg, the art critic who championed Color Field painting and its offspring, Lyrical Abstraction. On avant-garde issues, Greenberg was the foremost dismissive voice of establishment culture. Young artists were offering Conceptual and Post-Minimal art in opposition to his narrow doctrines, busily squashing the restrictive status quo, and painting got caught in the squeeze.
"Enter Mary Heilmann, beatnik-surfer-hippie-chick and California transplant to New York, who launched her career as a painter there in 1970. Despite what appears to be a case of truly terrible timing, Heilmann's decision to paint turns out to have been ideal."
Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times profiles artist Mary Heilmann as the Orange County Museum of Art presents a retrospective of her work.
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