"Known for her bold, enigmatic, unapologetically abstract paintings, von Heyl has long made a distinction between looking and seeing. Her works are not abstractions of real things in the world; they are a riot of images that she discovers while improvising on the canvas, a process that involves adding, obliterating, and reassembling. “I love combining things that don’t want to go together until they make a new image,” says the artist, who was born in Mainz, Germany."
Read more about the artist in a recent story by W magazine, where she discusses her life and process.
http://www.wmagazine.com/culture/art-and-design/2013/08/charline-von-heyl-abstract-artist/
We love her use of color and the way she explores the use of collage and line.
Also make sure to check out the first hand interview with the artist on http://bombsite.com/issues/113/articles/3655 for some direct interesting insight into her methodology.