Charline von Heyl Untitled from Untitled 2007

  • Not on view

Since the early 1990s, von Heyl has wrestled with abstraction in her work, explaining, “I want to get abstraction to a point where it screams that it is something: a representation and a thing.” Through her painting and more recently in drawings, prints, and books, she strives to invent new forms while simultaneously drawing upon “a ferocious input of images,” as she has described her wide-ranging and often idiosyncratic inspirations, from music lyrics and comic-strip frames to art-historical masterworks. This work represents von Heyl’s first experiment with printmaking. She has not only tried her hand at a dizzying variety of techniques—lithography, screenprint, woodcut, and digital printing—but has also combined them in playful, unconventional ways, juxtaposing layers and motifs as she has done in her paintings. While each print in this series is unique, certain motifs reappear in multiple works, exploiting the potential for replication and permutation inherent in the print process.

Gallery label from Abstract Generation: Now in Print, March 15–September 2, 2013.
Medium
One from a series of ten monoprints with lithograph, woodcut, screenprint, and digital print, with ink, acrylic, and collage additions
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 26 x 20 11/16" (66 x 52.5 cm); sheet: 30 1/16 x 22 7/16" (76.4 x 57 cm)
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
S11/Prints of Darkness, Brooklyn
Edition
unique
Credit
Fund for the Twenty-First Century
Object number
314.2008.10
Copyright
© 2024 Charline von Heyl
Series
Untitled
Department
Drawings and Prints
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