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** THE WHITNEY MUSEUM SPOTLIGHTS LOUISE NEVELSON AND MARY HEILMANN IN TWO FOCUSED PRESENTATIONS OPENING APRIL 9
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New York, NY, April 8, 2025 — Opening tomorrow, April 9, at the Whitney Museum of American Art are two focused gallery presentations, Collection View: Louise Nevelson (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=2d52300aac&e=59415c6e7e) and Mary Heilmann: Long Line (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=38675d3420&e=59415c6e7e) . These exhibitions feature renowned holdings from the Whitney’s collection and a new site-specific installation inspired by the architecture of the Museum and New York City.
immersive environment and unique space. Both presentations are displayed in light-filled galleries with sweeping city views and are part of a suite of exhibitions on the Museum’s fifth floor that highlight the work of four prominent women, including Amy Sherald: American Sublime (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=c87d068663&e=59415c6e7e), Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zurkow (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=34eea1646a&e=59415c6e7e), and Marina Zurkow: Parting Worlds (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=439a8fc22c&e=59415c6e7e) .
“This spring, we’re thrilled to open up our fifth floor galleries with new presentations of works by Louise Nevelson and Mary Heilmann sited in relation to our downtown landscape,” said Kim Conaty, the Whitney’s Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator. “These installations, bookending our exhibitions featuring Amy Sherald and Marina Zurkow, offer fresh encounters with a dynamic range of artworks from the 1940s through today, all set within the Whitney’s unique spaces.”
“Mary Heilmann: Long Line creates space for connection, an important aspect of not only the Whitney’s ethos but also of the way that Heilmann thinks about and makes art,” said Laura Phipps, Associate Curator at the Whitney. “Bringing together these different aspects of Heilmann’s art—ten years after her incredible terrace installation—feels like an exciting way to reflect on our time in this building and neighborhood.”
Collection View: Louise Nevelson
April 9–August 10, 2025
This presentation brings together over fifteen sculptures by Louise Nevelson drawn from the Whitney’s collection and sets them against the backdrop of New York City, a place that long inspired Nevelson in her sculptural assemblages. Born in Pereiaslav, Ukraine, Nevelson (1899–1988) lived and worked in Manhattan from the 1920s through the 1980s. Known for her bold monochrome assemblages of stacked and composed found objects, Nevelson was captivated by the city’s ever-changing skyline and saw creative potential in discarded materials that she scavenged throughout its streets at night. “I see New York City as a great big sculpture,” she once remarked. By painting these sculptures black, she cloaked the specific, identifying details of disparate objects such as duck decoys, lettuce crates, and pieces of rebar, transforming them into abstract shapes. Collection View: Louise Nevelson reimagines the relationship between Nevelson’s work and New York, highlighting the dynamic interplay she sought to
suggest in her work between motion and stillness, light and shadow, dawn and dusk.
Collection View: Louise Nevelson is organized by Kim Conaty, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, with Roxanne Smith, Senior Curatorial Assistant, and Antonia Pocock, Curatorial Assistant.
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Mary Heilmann: Long Line
April 9, 2025–January 19, 2026
Inspired by Mary Heilmann’s expansive practice and ethos of social connection, this new site-specific project celebrates the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Whitney Museum’s downtown building, for which Heilmann (b.1940, San Francisco, CA) created Sunset (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=c180d94a67&e=59415c6e7e) (2015) on the fifth-floor terrace. That project, which included a large-scale reproduction of a vibrant painting, a film, and Heilmann’s signature Monochrome Chairs, inaugurated the Museum’s largest outdoor gallery and transformed it into a site of reverie, memory, and leisure.
Mary Heilmann: Long Line further considers the relationship between the Museum’s architecture and the city. Heilmann’s immersive environment includes a hand-painted enlargement of her 2020 painting Long Line, as well as a variety of chairs related to furniture she has displayed in homes and exhibitions. Serving as elements in her larger composition, this furniture also encourages visitors to recharge and interact with one another and the environment outside the Museum.
Mary Heilmann: Long Line is organized by Laura Phipps, Associate Curator.
** PRESS CONTACT
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** EXHIBITION SUPPORT
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Collection View: Louise Nevelson is part of Outside the Box programming, which is supported by a generous endowment from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation.
** ABOUT THE WHITNEY
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The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today.
Whitney Museum Land Acknowledgment
The Whitney is located in Lenapehoking, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name Manhattan comes from their word Mannahatta, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s current site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan (“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original inhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today.
As a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people, the Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and program. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the perspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To read more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgment, visit the Museum’s website (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=a427c761c6&e=59415c6e7e) .
** VISITOR INFORMATION
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Image credits:
Installation view of Collection View: Louise Nevelson (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 9-August, 10 2025). From left to right: Rain Forest Column XXIII, 1964–1967; Dream House XXIII, 1972; Moving-Static-Moving Figures, c. 1945–48; Black Majesty, 1955; Young Shadows, 1959-1960; Moon Gardenscape No. XIV, 1969–1977; Illumination–Dark, 1961; Black Chord, 1964. Photograph by Tiffany Sage/BFA.com. © BFA 2025
Installation view of Mary Heilmann: Long Line (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 9, 2025-January 19, 2026). On wall: Long Line, 2025. On floor: Monochrome Chairs, 2015; April Chairs​​​​​​​, 2025. Photograph by Tiffany Sage/BFA.com. © BFA 2025