Whenever I pass through 78th Street Studios, I pop into Eileen Dorsey’s space to see what she’s working on. This fall will make nine years that she has held her studio practice on the first floor. Eileen has been a colleague and a peer for at least six of those nine years and each conversation we have about her work […]
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“It’s a themed show, but it isn’t so tightly specific to an image or a specific story line,” said R!ch Cihlar, Co-owner of E11even 2 and curator of Echo. The title of the show is “Echo: an exhibition on textures, repetition, and patterns.” The loose parameters set for the artists led to an assortment of interpretations of these themes. Generally […]
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“I don’t see myself as a landscape artist,” admits Eileen Dorsey… I can’t help but chuckle as I look around her space in 78th Street Studios, the walls covered with colorful landscapes. She corrects herself – “I know I paint landscapes, but I see them as something more.” I agree. Dorsey is known for her oil landscapes – usually she depicts deep, lush forests, […]
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312 in the 216! Chicago post-graffiti expressionist, Ish Muhammad, will debut his new work at Eileen Dorsey Studio this fall! When Muhammad and Dorsey met a year ago, they agreed that they would trade studios for Studio Swap: Chicago and Cleveland. Dorsey spent time working in Muhammad’s studio in Chicago this past May, and now it’s time for Ish to […]
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The last thing painter Eileen Dorsey wants to know is how much exactly she spends on paint. In her first-floor space in 78th Street Studios, table-sized palettes lay flat with paint chips as big as apples. Walls are lined with a dozen oil paintings of a green-and-purple Ireland, those all furnished with the well-known Dorsey schtick: a palette knife and […]
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