Charline von Heyl @ the ICA

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http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2012/07/color-field-and-form-part-4-heyl.html

Jul 25

Charline Von Heyl, Solo Dolo, 2010, oil and charcoal on linen (photo: Joanne Mattera)

Joanne Mattera blogs about a recent exhibition of paintings by Charline von Heyl at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.

Mattera writes that von Heyl "plies color against black and white, and she uses a variety of picture-making materials in her paintings. Some are rich and drippy; others, rendered more minimally with charcoal and a light wash, look to be scrubbed almost clean in parts; others still are scraped and painted over. Von Heyl's paintings are energetic, restless, explosive."

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Joanne Mattera Art Blog

Charline von Heyl Lecture

Submitted by Brett Baker on May 26, 2011

Charline Von Heyl: Now or Else

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http://abstractcritical.com/2012/05/now-or-else-charline-von-heyl-at-tate-liverpool/

John Bunker reflects on the work of Charline Von Heyl on view at Tate Liverpool through May 27, 2012.

Bunker writes that "Some might see abstraction as a safe haven, 'an escape from it all'. But what if we reverse this idea and look at it as a way of analysing, even critiquing the ever evolving visual realms of late Capitalism? Charline Von Heyl’s work might go some way to answering this question..."

Separately, he notes that Von Heyl's paintings "instantly reveal the act of seeing as an embodied experience. This creates a great physical counterweight to the jarring and startling juxtapositions of painterly techniques and imagery within the work."

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Abstract Critical

Charline von Heyl: Relationship of Now

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http://channel.tate.org.uk/tateshots-blog/2012/03/08/tateshots-charline-von-heyl/

Charline von Heyl and curator Gavin Delahunty walk through a new exhibition of von Heyl's paintings on view at Tate Liverpool through May 27, 2012.

Von Heyl remarks: "What I want to do with the painting is establish this relationship of now… that you are actually in the moment in front of a painting and something happens. What I want to happen is that the space between the painting and the viewer gets activated, and it activates the viewer to form a relationship, so the painting almost hovers in front of itself, between the viewer and the canvas."

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Tate Shots