Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone

This is a massive show! For the first time since I have been going to this art space I am totally blown away. I did not know who Mary Heilmann was, but her stuff totally rules.

This Go Ask Alice piece is a lot like here later stuff, but all of her periods are super great. The first stuff, when she was in art school, is clever and art-schooly. Her early work is all serious and high arty. After this she starts really killing it with these large series on a theme.

The art is all very new wave cool, but it still really emotionally connected with me–largely because she titled the works after rock albums in a lot of cases (which is something I can really relate to), but also because she just seems to be having so much damn fun.