Echo Eggebrecht

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present the work of Echo Eggebrecht in her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Come Hell or High Water. The exhibition runs from October 21st until November 25, 2006. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, October 21, from 6 to 8 pm.

In Come Hell or High Water, Eggebrecht presents eight paintings that act as a cross between atmospheric landscapes and still life. These works are a departure from her previous paintings as Eggebrecht reverses her approach to scale and scope. Here, macro becomes micro. Broad concepts of time travel and the human lifespan become intimate through the artist's interpretations of nature, experience and emotions. A winter landscape expresses longing, a Gothic cathedral evokes the human skeletal structure and a painterly architectural dig implies the traits of curiosity and investigation. In these works, Eggebrecht casts off acrylic for oil paint, which lends a luminous depth to her carefully constructed scenes.

Eggebrecht employs a wealth of source material, including handmade models of fishing lures, cat's cradles and lanterns that woven together create an invented space. Meticulously rendered symbols, rooted in Americana, are combined with painterly passages, suggesting a psychological space that is both fantastical and real. Her vocabulary of images is poetic while anchored in the concrete, suspending the viewer between the static depiction of objects and an implied narrative.

Eggebrecht (b. 1977) received her MFA from Hunter College in the spring of 2006 and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago in 2000. Her work will be included in the upcoming exhibition Poets on Painters at the Ulrich Museum, Kansas. Eggebrecht lives and works in New York.

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Echo Eggebrecht
Come Hell or High Water