Charline von Heyl
Galerie Gisela Capitain is delighted to announce its seventh solo exhibition of new paintings by German-born, US-based artist Charline von Heyl.
Considered one of the most important abstract painters of her generation, von Heyl has earned international acclaim for continually rethinking the possibilities of contemporary painting.
Her cerebral yet deeply visceral artworks upend longstanding assumptions about composition, beauty, and narrative. For her new body of work, realized in 2020/2021, von Heyl is drawing inspiration from a vast array of sources - including literature, philosophy, pop culture, metaphysics and personal history. In her studios in New York and Marfa,Texas,
von Heyl combines rigorous, process-based practice with the demand that each painting develops through the act of painting itself. Inspired by objects of her desire, she creates images that are seemingly familiar yet impossible to classify, offering, in her words, “a new image that stands for itself as fact.“