New art exhibitions featuring William T. Wiley and Mary Heilmann open Jan. 8 at UC Davis

About This Event

\"Mary Heilmann: Squaring Davis.\" Decades before she would become a preeminent contemporary abstract painter, Heilmann started studying with William T. Wiley at UC Davis and found a place whose unique life-as-art ethos meshed with her spirit and inspired her to keep creating art despite her doubts. This exhibition reunites Heilmann’s Northern California oeuvre of rarely seen ceramics from the mid-1960s, sculptures and a group of “Davis Square” paintings created in 1977. (Jan. 8–May 7, 2022)\ \ \"William T. Wiley and the Slant Step: All on the Line\" Featuring William T. Wiley’s formative early works (1962-69), this exhibition also reunites various works inspired by the odd, iconic Slant Step art object, which jump-started conceptual art in Northern California, and debuts a brand-new digital Slant Step work by Wiley’s grad student, Bruce Nauman. (Jan. 8–May 7, 2022)\ \ Please visit manettishrem.org for the museum\'s public hours and days.