Anke Weyer
11 Sep - 07 Nov 2015
ANKE WEYER
Two Islands Are Better Than One
11 September - 7 November 2015
Office Baroque is pleased to present the first individual exhibition in Europe of Anke Weyer. Anke Weyer (1974) studied at Frankfurt’s Staedelschule and at New York’s Cooper Union and has been living and working in New York since 1999.
In the work of Anke Weyer, paint handling looks aggressive, but is an equilibrist combination of brushwork, rubbing, dripping, splattering, scratching and mark making, all in various degrees of transparency. The physical act of painting itself, appears as a center from which meanings are scaled, codified and represented. Her work incorporates process, history and modernism, as much as building on postmodernism and cartoon culture. With an and/and approach to painting, Weyer takes a distance from discrete postwar vocabularies and finds power in the emotive as well as performative spectra of abstract painting. Weyer is a strong colorist, with a preference for vivid pinks, reds, blues and yellows. Dense, large color blobs float over occasional hints of figuration. Up close, her surfaces reveal incredibly rich texture and detail. With titles as diverse as Eggs All Day or ASAP Already, her work is rooted in the quotidian, as much as it seems to find pleasure in the vocabulary of someone’s junk mail folder.
Anke Weyer recently completed a residency at the Elaine De Kooning studio in East Hampton. She has had recent solo shows at Harper’s Books East Hampton (2015) and Canada, New York (2013).
Two Islands Are Better Than One
11 September - 7 November 2015
Office Baroque is pleased to present the first individual exhibition in Europe of Anke Weyer. Anke Weyer (1974) studied at Frankfurt’s Staedelschule and at New York’s Cooper Union and has been living and working in New York since 1999.
In the work of Anke Weyer, paint handling looks aggressive, but is an equilibrist combination of brushwork, rubbing, dripping, splattering, scratching and mark making, all in various degrees of transparency. The physical act of painting itself, appears as a center from which meanings are scaled, codified and represented. Her work incorporates process, history and modernism, as much as building on postmodernism and cartoon culture. With an and/and approach to painting, Weyer takes a distance from discrete postwar vocabularies and finds power in the emotive as well as performative spectra of abstract painting. Weyer is a strong colorist, with a preference for vivid pinks, reds, blues and yellows. Dense, large color blobs float over occasional hints of figuration. Up close, her surfaces reveal incredibly rich texture and detail. With titles as diverse as Eggs All Day or ASAP Already, her work is rooted in the quotidian, as much as it seems to find pleasure in the vocabulary of someone’s junk mail folder.
Anke Weyer recently completed a residency at the Elaine De Kooning studio in East Hampton. She has had recent solo shows at Harper’s Books East Hampton (2015) and Canada, New York (2013).