Overview

(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

 

Works
Biography

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

2024: Talisman, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY

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: 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
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 ByrdFleisher/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

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

5 Artists on Our Radar 2023, Artsy, May 2023

Cut: Katelyn Eichwald & TJ Rinoski, Published by Cob Gallery, London, 2022

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

Press
Exhibitions
Publications
Bibliography

Cut: Katelyn Eichwald & TJ Rinoski, Published by Cob Gallery, London, 2022

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