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Echo Eggebrecht: Not a Soul in SightOh, but you will, the first solo show of painter Echo Eggebrecht, was on display recently at the new Chelsea location of Sixtyseven Gallery. Eggebrecht’s ambivalent array of haunting and cheerful images transformed the stark white walls of the shiny new gallery space into a haze of blurry memories and almost-forgotten details.
Eggebrecht’s images display a seamless combination of painterly technique and graphic design. Her visual themes are borrowed from the comforting fixtures of Americana, like embroidered dish cloths, icons of the Southwest, and quilt patterns. The sky in Stars and Stripes is an obsessively rendered homage to the American flag; the over-grown, pattered grass in The Picnic could be mistaken for a detail of a granny quilt square. Totem, in which the modeled crests of a totem pole are set against colorful rolling clouds and a flat lime-green background, is the culmination of the visual tension that results from the artist’s combinations of flat and varied surfaces.
Despite the familiarity of Eggebrecht’s allusions, the acrylic paintings take on a spooky sense of abandonment, resembling theater sets after the actors have left, the emotion has been drained from the stage and the clean up crew has yet to strike it. This is partly a result of her technique: she constructs miniature models and then transfers t
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