Contact

annabelleverhoye@gmail.com

Overview

My practice begins with a question about surface: what happens when a painting is no longer opaque — when the wall behind it becomes part of the image?

Working on acrylic glass, I construct multi-panel paintings through successive layers of acrylic paint applied with hand-cut stencils, interrupted by scattered gold leaf. Each panel exists independently yet remains inseparable from the whole. Light shifts across the surface and the surrounding architecture becomes an active participant in the image — the painting is never fully fixed. It changes with the viewer's position, the quality of light, and the space in which it is encountered.

This interest in the unstable image grew from a life lived between places — between France, Germany, and the United States. Individual panels function independently while remaining connected to a larger whole, mirroring the shifting relationship between personal identity and the environments we move through.

Increasingly, I am interested in extending this work into architecture itself, exploring how light, shadow, and space can become inseparable from the painted surface.

Experience

Annabelle Verhoye is a French-German visual artist based between New York and Munich. Working across painting and installation, she creates multi-panel works on acrylic glass using hand-cut stencils and scattered gold leaf. Her practice explores perception, memory, and the dialogue between painted surfaces, light, and architecture.

She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, where she graduated top of her class on a full scholarship. She has exhibited internationally in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Miami, Sydney, and Zurich, and her work is held in private collections internationally.