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Charline von Heyl My Little Doppelgänger Poltergeist Soul , 2013
Acrylic on linen, 62 × 60 in. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York Collection of Rita and Jeffrey Adler
With an eclectic and idiosyncratic approach to painting, von Heyl defiantly embraces a vast range of paradoxical modes. She frequently uses pattern to structure her canvases, and removes pigment with wiping and scratching as she applies it. Here—in a painting whose title conjures the uncanny—seemingly gestural brushstrokes are meticulously painted to appear spontaneous, and each overlapping layer conceals the order in which it has been applied. The tubular forms suggest columns breaking in half, like the toppling of an ancient monument. —HJ
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