Stefanie Heinze

Adorn

The Bird Has Muscles

Stefanie Heinze’s (b. Berlin, 1987; lives and works in New York, U.S.) artistic process refutes the easy classification of abstraction or figuration. The artist starts with small-scale drawings and collages, which are then translated to sweeping tableaus. For her, drawing is an internal act, a process of reduction, while painting is an external act, one of production. Imagery is constantly cut away and built back up, existing somewhere between negation and addition. In its constant metamorphosis and change, Heinze’s work disrupts distinctions between so-called high and low culture, from the imagery she cites to the treatment of the paint itself.

The artist’s edition Adorn is released in conjunction with Heinze’s first and comprehensive monograph Your Mouth Comes Second. The edition includes the book. The high quality archival pigment print on Hahnemühle mould-paper features is signed and numbered by the artist.