A shocking pink wall, lime green front desk and aqua-colored chair greet visitors to Mary Heilmann’s show at Hauser & Wirth Gallery, creating a bold statement not quite in keeping with the subtlety of the exhibition’s content – small-scale work on paper from the 70s to the early ‘00s. Nevertheless, one of the show’s smallest pieces, a black and blue watercolor and pencil drawing that brings to mind a game board, an overview of a pool or architectural forms, inspired Heilmann’s new, hugely enjoyable wall-filling new site-specific drawing, ‘A Long Lost Soul.’ (On view through July 26th in Chelsea).
