Mary Heilmann is an American artist known for her abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture. Her imaginative color relationships are derived from a variety of sources, including the yellow-centric palette of the The Simpsons, California surf culture, and classic pop songs. “Rather than following the decrees of modern, non-representational formalism, I started to understand that the essential decisions taken during the creative process were more and more related to content,” she explained. Born in 1940 in San Francisco, CA, Heilmann graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1962. After studying poetry and ceramics at San Francisco State University, and sculpture at the University of California at...