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Jutta Haeckel
Golden Thread, 22 October - 23 November 2022
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"Transition," 2022, acrylic on jute, 59 1/8 x 47 1/4 inches, 150 x 120 cm
"Transition," 2022, acrylic on jute, 59 1/8 x 47 1/4 inches, 150 x 120 cm

Opening reception for the artist: Saturday October 22, 3-5 pm

 

German painter Jutta Haeckel’s subversive artworks invert the act and purpose of painting—both materially and subjectively.  Beginning with jute as her substrate—much thicker and rougher than standard canvas—she frays it by removing some of the threads. This opens the weave and allows her to extrude paint from the back, thus physically merging paint, image and surface.  In addition, through her process of accumulating material and form, she disguises the representational sources of her subjects. In confounding the viewer's experience she creates an opportunity for reinvention.

 

Constantly exploding conventions, Haeckel’s paintings simultaneously disclose and deceive, their multilayered colors and swirling or grid-like designs revealing whispers of lost meaning. She draws content from visual markers intended to inform, instruct, or identify. Yet the maps, fingerprints, and circuit boards she depicts transform into abstracted patterns and their purpose evaporates.

 

Haeckel studied with Karin Kneffel and Katharina Grosse and credits their vastly different approaches to painting with her own fascination with the medium’s possibilities.  She notes:

 

“I don't believe that everything is already accomplished, I think evolution is always possible. It starts with just a little variation and suddenly it could become something new or unique.  This is why I always force myself to search for the boundaries of painting and the boundaries of the materials I am working with.”

 

There is a deep urgency to Haeckel’s paintings, a sense that the borders and boundaries she’s pushing against might give way at any moment.  As she extends and expands the construction and content of painting, she calls into question the nature of art itself and dares to reimagine what is possible—in art as well as life.

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Works
  • A multicolored, brightly colored abstract painting.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Golden Thread I, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    74 3/4 x 59 in
    190 x 150 cm
  • A multicolored, brightly colored abstract painting.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Golden Thread II, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    74 3/4 x 59 in
    190 x 150 cm
  • Front view of a multicolored, brightly colored abstract painting.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Haze, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
    100 x 80 cm
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  • A multicolored abstract painting with mostly vertical line work.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Smoke, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
    100 x 80 cm
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  • A multicolored abstract painting with fingerprint-like line work.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Contemplation II, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in
    150 x 120 cm
  • Front view of a multicolored abstract painting.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Contemplation IV, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in
    150 x 120 cm
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  • A multicolored abstract painting of fibrous strands.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Circulating, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in
    150 x 120 cm
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  • A multicolored abstract painting.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Transition, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in
    150 x 120 cm
  • Front view of a multicolored abstract painting.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Contemplation IV, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in
    150 x 120 cm
    Inquire
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  • A multicolored, brightly colored abstract painting.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Undala I, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
    100 x 80 cm
  • A multicolored abstract painting.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Steam, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
    100 x 80 cm
    Inquire
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  • A multicolored abstract painting with florescent semi-circles from top to bottom.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Mist, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
    100 x 80 cm
  • Jutta Haeckel Pattern of Chance I, 2021 acrylic on jute 59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in 150 x 120 cm
    Jutta Haeckel
    Pattern of Chance I, 2021
    acrylic on jute
    59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in
    150 x 120 cm
  • Jutta Haeckel Pattern of Chance II, 2021 acrylic on jute 59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in 150 x 120 cm
    Jutta Haeckel
    Pattern of Chance II, 2021
    acrylic on jute
    59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in
    150 x 120 cm
  • Red dots and larger blocks of colorful paint create a busy layered effect across the entire canvas. Thick dark lines swipe diagonally across the canvas underneath the layers.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Sedimentary Layers, 2020
    acrylic on jute
    74 3/4 x 90 1/2 in
    190 x 230 cm
  • A multicolored abstract painting with fingerprint-like line work.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Contemplation III, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in
    150 x 120 cm
  • Jutta Haeckel Contemplation I, 2022 acrylic on jute 47 1/4 x 59 1/8 in 150 x 120 cm
    Jutta Haeckel
    Contemplation I, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    47 1/4 x 59 1/8 in
    150 x 120 cm
  • Front view of a multicolored abstract painting.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Nebula, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
    100 x 80 cm
  • A colorful acrylic painting on jute fabric.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Winding Ways, 2020
    acrylic on jute
    74 3/4 x 90 1/2 in
    190 x 230 cm
  • A multicolored abstract painting on canvas.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Undala II, 2022
    acrylic on jute
    39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
    100 x 80 cm
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Press
  • Jutta Haeckel, Contemplation IV, 2022 (detail), acrylic on jute, 59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in, 150 x 120 cm

    Jean Conner and Jutta Haeckel Featured in Squarecylinder's Best of 2022

    David Roth, Squarecylinder.com, December 14, 2022
  • A colorful acrylic painting on jute fabric.

    David Roth on Jutta Haeckel

    David Roth, SquareCylinder.com, November 4, 2022
Events
  • Jutta Haeckel: Golden Thread Exhibition Tour

    Jutta Haeckel: Golden Thread Exhibition Tour

    17 Nov 2022
    Cocktails @ 5pm Exhibition Tour @ 6pm Please join us at the gallery for our final curatorial tour of Jutta Haeckel: Golden Thread .
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