Anke Weyer b. 1974, Karlsruhe, DE

Anke Weyer’s abstract paintings act like mirrors reflecting the physical act of painting, with expressive, colorful gestures suggesting the artist’s scale and body. Weyer’s canvas works take on the challenge of monumental scale, and are best exemplified by the meandering, looping, heavy line dominating her surfaces.  Such heavy lies—alongside the paint splatters and smudges applied by brushes, hands, blades, and rags that dominate her surfaces—index the placements of Weyer’s gesticulating arm.  The works thereby function as a kind of portal to a punkish prelingual energy, contained like footprints or fossils on the works’ surfaces.  

Anke Weyer (b.1974, Karlsruhe, DE; lives and works in New York, NY, US) attended the Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Künste Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main (1995 – 2000) and undertook an exchange semester at the Cooper Union, New York. Anke Weyer has had recent solo shows at Megan Mulrooney, Los Angeles (2024), CANADA, New York (2021), Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (2019), Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (2017), CANADA, New York (2016), Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (2016), Harper’s, East Hampton (2015) and Office Baroque, Brussels (2015).