Katelyn Eichwald
(b. 1987) in Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
The tension in Katelyn Eichwald's paintings evoke a sense of longing where placidity can transform into nearly anything. Fecundity is the operation at hand, and easy resolution is constantly at stake. The facelessness of these compositions also contributes to meandering desires. She captures the private symbolism of Munch, with obscure figures haunting several canvases. These works literally barter in narrative, with source materials displaced from linear contexts. The occasional wreckage or eruption looms behind certain paintings, rendering the visible material all the more eerie. The subject matter expands out like barren countrysides, roads leading to somewheres disguised as nowheres. The works embody the serenity of wandering, and the potential of discovery in arrested moments. Scale and volume produce a strong sense of visual language, immersing the viewer in these delicate compositions. Each painting has its own grammar, it is the painter’s endeavor to make the syntax work. She edits images, removing pigments to the brink of collapse. One is led to a cliff’s edge... - Text by Reilly Davidson
Born 1987 in Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
2012: MFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2009: BFA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022: Castles, Galerie Sultana, Paris and Arles, France
2021: Never, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2018: Good Boy, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023: Three Acts, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK
2023: L'heure du conte, Projet Pangée, Montreal, Canada
2022: Katelyn Eichwald and T.J. Rinowski, Cob Gallery, London, UK
2022: About Painting, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy
2022: Portals, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2021: Stress Tested, Co-curated by Emma cc Cook, Public Gallery, London, UK
2021-22: In Resonance with David Byrd, Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, PA
2021: Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2021: Library Arrangement, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Australia
2021: Face in the Wind, Gracie DeVito, Katelyn Eichwald, Hugo Montoya, Et al., SF, CA
2021: Lonely Ones, curated by Katelyn Eichwald, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2021: Hunters in the Snow, curated by Fortnight Institute, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
2019: You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY
2018: Butterfly’s Nautilus, Celaya Brothers Gallery & Et. al., Condo Art Fair, Mexico City
2017: Karma Book Market, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2017: Practical Magic, Chicken Coop Contemporary, Portland, OR
2017: Domestic Tranquility, Zero Zero LA, Los Angeles, CA
2016: Mother Popcorn, Big Medium, Austin, TX
2016: Katelyn Eichwald & Peter Shear, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2012: MFA Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
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RL Mag - For Art's Sake
John Ortved, Ralph Lauren Magazine -
Katelyn Eichwald : Never
Elizabeth Buhe, The Brooklyn Rail, October 1, 2021 -
THIS SUMMER, NEW YORK ART IS MAGIC, MYSTIC AND UNCANNY
Annie Armstrong, Cultured, August 12, 2021 -
Nine Lives
Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, August 9, 2021 -
7 Artists to Watch July 2018
Art Space, July 11, 2018
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Katelyn Eichwald
Never 8 Sep - 24 Oct 2021Fortnight Institute is pleased to present Katelyn Eichwald: Never, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. An artist’s book will be published in a limited edition run of 200...Read more -
Nine Lives
22 Jul - 21 Aug 2021Nine Lives is a group exhibition that looks to examine the perennial motif of cats within art. Across generations and cultures, felines have been used as a vehicle for symbolism,...Read more -
The Lonely Ones
Curated by Katelyn Eichwald 15 Feb - 30 Mar 2021The lonely ones, the broken-hearted, the estranged, the ones whose mothers loved them wrong, the ones whose fathers loved them weak, the ones whose sisters and brothers died young, whose...Read more -
Hunters in the Snow
Curated by Fortnight Institute at 303 Gallery, NYC 6 Feb - 7 Mar 2021Pieter Bruegel’s Series of the Month depicts January as a solemn time, one in which the struggle for survival is most acute. The month is captured in his painting, Hunters...Read more -
KATELYN EICHWALD
Good Boy 20 Jun - 29 Jul 2018Fortnight Institute is pleased to present Good Boy, Katelyn Eichwald's first solo exhibition in New York. Good Boy features a series of new paintings and a new artist's book published...Read more
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Katelyn Eichwald | Never
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Katelyn Eichwald | Good Boy
Katelyn Eichwald, 2018 Paperback, 90 pages
Publisher: Fortnight Institute
Dimensions: 4.75 x 7 inches Read more -
Katelyn Eichwald | Good Boy | Unique
Katelyn Eichwald, 2018 Paperback, 90 pages
Publisher: Fortnight Insitute
Dimensions: 4.75 x 7 inches Read more -
Katelyn Eichwald | Never | Unique
2021 Read more
Katelyn Eichwald: Never, Review by Elizabeth Buhe, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2021
Never published by Fortnight Institute, 2021
Good Boy published by Fortnight Institute, 2018
7 Artists to Watch, Artspace.com, July 2018
Untitled Painting, Bookforum print edition, September 2016