paints with oil on rough canvas and linen, scrubbing into the woven surface like she’s trying to remove a stain. Instead, she’s left with the opposite — an almost archeological image sunk deep into the fiber of the painting. Maybe it’s a drink in a man’s hand, or a tangled rope, or the house at the end of the street with no lights on. It could be a French braid or a castle. Sometimes, figures meet and part ways in the distance, exchanging words we can’t hear. Other times we’re alone with a paring knife and a lit cigarette. Eichwald often uses screenshots from TV and film to find her subjects; as a result, the work is both intimate and withholding, trapped in a moment and hovering outside of time, like a stopped watch on your own wrist.
Katelyn Eichwald (b. 1987, Chicago, USA; lives and works in Chicago, USA) has had solo exhibitions at Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, USA (forthcoming); Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, USA; Cob Gallery, London, UK; Fortnight Institute, New York, USA; and Galerie Sultana, Paris and Arles, France.
Eichwald’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, USA; Pangée, Montreal, Canada; Galerie Mathilde le Coz and Galerie Elsa Meunier, Paris, France; Night Café Gallery, London, UK; Huxley-Parlour, London, UK; Cob Gallery, London, UK; Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy; Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan; Public Gallery, London, UK; Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, USA; Fortnight Institute, New York, USA; Reading Room, Melbourne, Australia; Et al., San Francisco, USA; 03 Gallery, New York, USA; and VSOP Projects, Greenport, New York, USA.
