Carl Heidenreich, *Untitled*, c. 1958-65. Mixed media on Japanese paper. Collection of Emanuel L. Wolf and Patricia Recendez.

Over the past year, the Carl Heidenreich Foundation has been in touch with writers and emerging voices in the field of art history and visual culture studies, commissioning some while also reflecting on our own experiences of discovering Heidenreich. Here, we offer a sneak peek of the work-in-progress to come.

An Art History PhD candidate at UC San Diego, Kathryn Barulich is thinking through the embodiment of atmospheric conditions in Heidenreich’s early landscape and how these mists, fogs, and vapors reappear in the form of white scrims overtop his later abstractions.

As a creative steward and art facilitator with a history of working with social justice organizations, Jackie Valle is focused on Heidenreich’s peripatetic journey in exile and how his later abstract paintings reinscribe these lived experiences though multi-layered abstract compositions which refuse easy categorization.

Carl Heidenreich Director Christopher Squier is contributing a longer piece on three forms of abstraction practiced or invoked by the work of Jewish and German exiles in the United States, including Heidenreich, Theodor Adorno, and Charlotte Beradt.

Carl Heidenreich trustee and art historian Alla Efimova is contributing a piece on her encounters with Heidenreich’s work as the founding Director of the Foundation, exploring its varied legacy in relation to its history—artistically, culturally, and personally—as well as its rediscovery in the homes of Heidenreich’s friends, family, and collectors and the important moments and lessons learned in re-presenting it to the public.