Katelyn Eichwald American, b. 1987

Katelyn Eichwald 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, US. Lives and works in Chicago, US) has had solo exhibitions at Fortnight Institute, New York, US and Galerie Sultana, Paris and Arles, France (2022). Eichwald’s work has featured in group exhibitions at Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, US; Pangée, Montreal, Canada ; Galerie Mathilde le Coz & Galerie Elsa Meunier, Paris, France; Night Cafe Gallery, London, UK ; Huxley-Parlour, London, UK; Cob Gallery, London, UK; Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy; Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan; Public Gallery, London, Uk; Flesicher/ Ollman, Philadelphia, US; Fortnight Institute, New York, US; Reading Room, Melbourne, Australia; Et al., San Fransisco, US; 03 Gallery, New York, US and VSOP Projects, Greenport, New York, US.

 

 

 

2025 In Tandem, Cob Gallery, London, UK (forthcoming)

2025 Again & Again, Overduin & Co, Los Angeles, USA 

2024 Pluck,  Pangée, Montreal, Canada

2024 This Floating Hour, Galerie Mathilde le Coz & Galerie Elsa Meunier, Paris, France

2024 Bump in the Night, Night Cafe Gallery, London, UK

2023 Entre chien et loup, Dans les yeux d’Elsa Gallery & Gallery Mathilde le Coz, Paris, France

2023 Three Acts, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK

2023 L'heure du conte, Projet Pangée, Montreal, Canada