Fanya Imholz explores humor, anxiety, and the influence of art history on contemporary visual language in her paintings of fruit, walls, shapes, people, and homes. She uses contrast as a tool to create unfamiliar images, where contemporary objects are paired with references to historical painting technique, and subject matter can be simultaneously humorous and unsettling. Intent on creating work that invites interpretation and

storytelling, she deconstructs cities into puzzle piece shapes, assigns human anxieties to pieces of fruit, and emphasizes singular, contemplative moments in human subjects. Her paintings resist the automatic and indifferent interpretation of everyday objects and historically prominent painting methods, offering close observation and questioning as playful alternatives.