Katelyn Eichwald lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Eichwald completed her BFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009 and received her MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco in 2012. Solo exhibitions include Castles, Galerie Sultana, Paris and Arles, France (2022); Never, Fortnight Institute, New York, US (2021) and Good Boy, Fortnight Institute, New York, US (2018). Group exhibitions include Cut, Katelyn Eichwald and TJ Rinoski, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2022); About Painting, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy (2022); Portals: Katelyn Eichwald, Dominique Knowles, Reina Sugihara, Elsa Site, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan (2022); Stress Tested, co curated by Emma cc Cook, Public Gallery, London (2021); David Byrd: In Resonance, Flesicher/ Ollman, Philadelphia, US (2021-2022); Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute, New York, US (2021); Library arrangement, Reading Room, Melbourne, Australia; Face in the Wind, Gracie DeVito, Katelyn Eichwald, Hugo Montoya, Et al., San Fransisco, US (2021); Hunters in the Snow, 303 Gallery, New York, US (2021); You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory, VSOP Projects, Greenport, New York, US (2019); Karma Book Market, Fortnight Institute, New York City, US (2017).
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.