VON HEYL, Charline
Düsseldorf – Paintings from the Early 90's

Catalogue gathering the early paintings of Charline von Heyl – a group first exhibited in Cologne and Munich between 1991 and 1995, before the artist moved to New York, and shown again at Petzel Gallery, New York, in Spring 2015.

Von Heyl has never distinguished abstract from representational form; rather, she has used all the visual tools at her disposal to lure the viewer into her compositions. The early paintings juxtapose textured fields of color with emblems that have the ability to allude to skin tone, nature, and industrial elements, among other motifs. Now and then her paintings function like a visual oxymoron: funny but not humorous, fluidly painted yet collaged, both experimental and expertly composed. Von Heyl treads into the unfamiliar, finding a place beyond language, discourse and argument that can only be articulated in painting. [publishers’ note]

With a text by Isabelle Graw.

Published by Petzel gallery, 2015
Design by Joseph Logan
Monographs / Painting