Red circle floor pattern
38 x 39 inches, oil paint on birch panel, 2005
Introducing Sara Eichner, master painter of the humble façade.
Thought you all might like to meet an artist whose subject matter is the wondrous materials we use to cover and embellish our walls, floors and buildings. Façade materials…. She makes paintings of these materials -- and does it so well.
Dark floral wallpaper (detail)
40 x 72 inches, oil on birch panel, 2005
Wall paper, siding, shingles, and tiles… painted in oil, goauche on paper, and drawn directly onto the wall.
Inverted Corner
Drawing scale: determined by site, approximately 60 x 60 inches each,
green mechanical pencil on wall
Side of building with blue shingles (detail)
22 x 30 inches, goauche, 2004
I love patterns… and she’s got lots of them, the meditative and repetitive, the Victorian and ornate, and sometimes she sends them sloping off into space in interesting ways.
Green floral wallpaper
22 x 30 inches, goauche, 2004
Blue floral wallpaper
16 x 14 inches, goauche, 2004
Red floral wallpaper sample, 1
8.5 x 8.5 inches, oil paint on birch panel, 2005
Green floral wallpaper sample
16 x 8.5 inches, oil paint on birch panel, 2005
Hexagon facade
13.5 x 15 inches, oil on birch panel, 2003
Siding samples in Facade exhibition at Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2004
Red & orange stone facades
13.5 x 18.5 inches, oil onbirch panel, 2003
For inquiries and/or to see work in person, contact the Sears-Peyton Gallery in NYC (210 11th Avenue, Suite 802 (212) 966-7469 ) or the Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia (145 N. 2nd Street, (215) 625-9990)
Wasn't her house/studio featured in a house tour recently?
I just keep running into her work, which I really like. I saw a piece or two at a gallery in Chelsea earlier this summer.
yes, her house was featured on a house tour... and i found out about her work because jill gave me the tip!