ANGELA HEISCH Biography

Known for her luminous application of colour, Angela Heisch composes paintings of repeated motifs, curving forms, and delicate, gestural lines. Drawing inspiration from organic bodies, patterns in nature, and the cosmos, Heisch’s paintings are infused with waves of energy and tension, capturing triumphant yet fleeting moments of balance and stillness. Heisch paints carefully in multi-layered applications of oil on canvas to achieve the desired atmospheric qualities and emotional tenor of the final work. Each painting is characterised by a sense of movement, a fluidity reflected in the opposing properties that coexist on the canvas – hard and soft, light and dark, flatness and depth. Such oppositional symmetry is at the heart of the artist’s practice and infuses her paintings with an embodied inquisitive gaze, directly inviting the viewer to engage and explore open-ended states of possibility and meaning.

The artist is featured in As above, so below, a solo exhibition at GRIMM in New York, NY (US) on view until October 14, 2023. Heisch also has a major solo museum exhibition at the K11 Art Museum, Shanghai (CN) opening 8 November 2023. Heisch received a BA Fine Arts from University of Potsdam, SUNY, NY (US) in 2011, and an MFA from University at Albany, SUNY, NY (US) in 2014. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (UK); Projet Pangée, Montréal (CA); Transmitter Gallery, New York, NY (US); Gallery 106Green, New York, NY (US). Group presentations include Romancing the Surface, curated by Loie Hollowell at GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) and PresentGenerations, at Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH (US). Selected collections: Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (LB); Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH (US); Fundación Medianocheo, Granada (ES); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (US); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL); and Whitworth Museum, Manchester (UK).