Charline von heyl biography books
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Charline von Heyl (b. 1960, Germany)
Charline von Heyl was born in Germany in 1960 and has lived in the United States since 1996. She studied painting in Hamburg and Düsseldorf and participated in the Cologne-based art scene in the 1980s. She currently divides her time between New York, NY and Marfa, TX.
Von Heyl's first survey show was at Le Consortium, Dijon in 2009. Her first U.S. museum show was at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2005 and her first US survey was at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 2011.
Her work has been exhibited both in the United States and abroad, including solo museum exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (2018); the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2018); Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (2015); the Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom (2012); the Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany (2012); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2009), and the Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria (2004), among many others.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Greene Naftali, New York (2019); Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany (2017); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2018); The Institute of Contemporary Art Chicago (2016); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014); Scul
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Born 1960 take back Mainz, Germany
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ARTIST MONOGRAPHS
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Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes
Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited with text by Dirk Luckow. Text by John Corbett, Evelyn C. Hankins, Katy Siegel.
Combining humor with references to literature, pop culture, metaphysics and personal history, German-born, New York and Marfa-based painter Charline von Heyl (born 1960) creates paintings that offer in her words, a new image that stands for itself as fact. This catalog is published on the occasion of her show at Washington DC's Hirshhorn Gallery and Sculpture Garden, her largest US museum survey. The catalog was designed in close collaboration with von Heyl, with a new painting created specifically for the cover and a rare Z-fold binding that effectively separates the images and texts into two connected yet independent, mirror-image books.
New York Magazine's Jerry Saltz included this catalog in a list of his favorite recent art books, writing: "this beautifully designed book is devoted to the artistic fireworks and optical accomplishments of
von Heyl, whom one critic has called 'the most exciting American painter right now.' The charismatic intelligence pictured in these ever-changing, highly charged, intensely graphic, and profusely colored paintings may w