About the artist:

Almut Heise patiently labors to create meticulously finished paintings and works on paper. Heise first turned to painting in the 1960s and studied in Mainz, Hamburg, and London. Bucking shifting art-world trends, her works deftly avoid bearing any index of their time. The brilliantly executed interiors with numerous references to the furniture and design of postwar Germany are an ode to representational painting, but they never veer into narrative, let alone value judgment. A similarly dispassionate attitude speaks from Heise’s portraits, a genre that has been predominant in her output since the mid-1970s.