Petra Höller

Pencil crayon + graphite on paper

oil on wood cradle

Graphite on paper
14” x 17”

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Pencil crayon and graphite on paper
8” x 8”

$215

Graphite and pencil crayon on paper
3” x 5”

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graphite + pencil crayon on paper

Oil on canvas

Lost due to covid-19 facility closures

Yarn Tapestry

Imperfect Ideas of Flowers is a tapestry study determined by my incomplete memories of flowers, thrift-store yarn and the limits of the weaving techniques. The notion of the flower is constrained and warped, crushed into an icon composed of pixel-like stitches.

Collection of the artist

Oil on stretched microfibre fabric

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Oil on canvas

Lost due to covid-19 facility closures

Oil paint and gesso on birch panel

This painting is a portrait.

Whereabouts unknown

Yarn, fabric and plastic mesh

In creating my tapestries I work intuitively and integrate found/second-hand materials. I think of these pieces as painting with fibres. constructing these pieces allows me to re-purpose materials that are otherwise destined for the landfill while also challenging the inaccessibility of traditional oil painting.

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Oil on canvas

I realised I hate painting cars.

Gifted

uh oh is an intuitive, curiosity driven exploration of failure. the canvas slides down the wall onto the floor, falling, slumping but also evading or escaping the restrictions of normative display methods. Doodles, graffiti and a generous sprinkling of rhinestones float across the canvas, embellishing the hybrid painting-object that is also a notebook page, drawing and - with the protrusions of the beam and brick that pull the canvas out into space - a sculpture. uh oh is absurd and humorous. It is unbound, deconstructed, and existing in emancipatory state of in-betweenness.

Image from Misconstructed at the VAV Gallery, photo by Teodora Stefan.

Destroyed

Detail from uh oh painting installation.

Destroyed

Oil and oil pastel on canvas

A Clown, a Storm Cloud, Fifteen Flavours of Tears depicts a clown-like character with a green witch nose, melting, streaming, transfiguring in all of its overwhelming grief and frustration.

Collection of the artist

Oil and oil pastel on wood panel

A Ghost (The Stages of Water) is a portrait composed of gestural marks, reactions to memory. It is a painting composed through feeling. Puddles gather, streams trail, vapours and clouds drift and rains dribble: water is here a way evoking unfixity and changing states.

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Oil, oil pastel, graphite and coloured pencil on reclaimed canvas

For the love of dog.

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Graphite and pencil crayon on paper

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Graphite and coloured pencil on paper

Collection of the artist

Graphite and coloured pencil on paper

Collection of the artist

Graphite and coloured pencil on paper

Collection of the artist

Graphite on board

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Graphite on paper

Gifted

Graphite and pencil crayon on paper

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Graphite and watercolour on paper

Collection of the artist

Watercolour and graphite on paper

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