Artist Statement

My practice investigates how perception shapes our experience of belonging. Through layered paintings on acrylic glass, I explore how memory, movement, and light continually transform the way we experience our surroundings. Rather than depicting specific landscapes, my work examines how environments are perceived, remembered, and reconstructed through looking.

Using reverse painting, hand-cut stencils, and scattered gold leaf, I create multi-panel works that exist as individual elements while forming a unified whole. As light changes and the viewer moves, subtle shifts in depth, reflection, and material presence emerge, inviting sustained observation rather than immediate resolution.

Growing up between France and Germany, and later living in the United States, shaped my understanding of belonging as something fluid rather than fixed. These experiences continue to inform a practice centered on fragmentation, layering, and perception.

I create paintings that change through the act of looking, inviting viewers to reflect on how memory, perception, and experience continually shape our understanding of belonging.

Biography

Annabelle Verhoye is a French-German visual artist based between New York and Munich. Her work investigates how perception shapes our experience of belonging through layered paintings and installations on acrylic glass that explore memory, light, material, and the act of looking.

She received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private collections across Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia.

Annabelle Verhoye Studio

annabelleverhoye@gmail.com