[Charline von Heyl is] a ferocious shape-maker and a pirate of the color black: black stripes, black smears, hard- edged black shapes, black charcoal lines and marks, black cutouts, negative shapes dropped out of black, black stars, arrows and darts; [...] Black, black, black – the element that gives the painting a feeling of confidence, authority, of being ‘resolved.‘ [...] They make all of the other elements in the painting [...] cohere, and they give the paintings its attitude of fearlessness.
- David Salle