Charline von Heyl ‘Making a Painting More Alive’ – Hirshhorn Museum
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The largest US museum survey of this pioneering artist to date, "Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes" features more than thirty large-scale paintings that reveal the artist’s considerable influence in the field of contemporary art. Charline von Heyl (German, b. Mainz, 1960) studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and participated in the Cologne art scene in the 1980s before moving to New York in 1995. Her work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, and is in collections around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and the Kunstmuseum Bonn. She was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2014 and has been awarded residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Chinati Foundation. Organized in collaboration with the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, this major multinational exhibition highlights the artist’s groundbreaking artistic output since 2005, including recent works that point to new developments in her constantly evolving practice. Painting highlights in this video include detail views of: “The Colour Out of Space,” 2013. Acrylic, oil, charcoal and pastel crayon on linen. Collection of Lizbeth & George Krupp. Charline von Heyl is in conversation with Hilary-Morgan Watt, Digital Engagement Manager at the Hirshhorn Museum. "Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes" On view November 8, 2018 through January 27, 2019
