STATEMENT FROM MARY HEILMANN STUDIO

This show celebrates an almost ten year association that Mary has had with the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, where, in collaboration with Virgil Marti and Christina Roberts she designed and produced three versions of the serape print, which is a hand silk screened and hand painted cotton fabric.

The fabric design is inspired by motifs that Mary has used in the Serape paintings that she has been making for the last ten years.

Those paintings were in turn influenced by Mexican serape blankets.

The fabric was then used to make a shade for a lantern-type lighting fixture, also designed by Mary and the Fabric Workshop team, and fabricated by Doina Adam.

This installation includes a club chair covered with the Serape fabric, ceramic cups and plates, and a tile table, as well as painting and sculpture.

Rhonda Tymeson worked with Mary to design the chair cover. Donald Morgan helped with the concept and fabrication of the chair. Steve Keister worked on the design, fabrication and tiling of the table.

Tracey Blackman at the Fabric Workshop Store has been responsible for distribution.

It was Mark Rosenthal who proposed the idea for this project to the Fabric Workshop, and Kippy Stroud whose generosity made it possible.