The Zurich artist Andrea Muheim is known as a painter of intimate portraits and private spaces
of still lifes and also of landscapes and cityscapes. Her fundamental and recurrent interest
however is focused on the human body-whether as a portrait a nude or as recently in motion.
She uses the medium to conduct an ongoing inventory of her immediate day-to-day surroundings
and to create atmospherically charged pictorial spaces. The relationship between color form
structure and light is thereby repeatedly and freshly explored. A particular characteristic of
her painterly practice is the serial production of one and the same theme or subject as a
concentrated investigation of issues involving visual aesthetics. Nearly 800 works have been
assembled in chronological sequence into clear concentrated tableaus they turn this artist's
book into a veritable pictorial diary extending over the thirty years of Andrea Muheim's
creative production.
