Name: Being Work Prints & Originals
Brand: Insert Press
Price: 150.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Insert Press is pleased to announce the release of a new edition of prints to accompany Eileen Wolf Echikson's exhibition, Here Sometimes, opening Saturday, December 2, 2023 from 7-10pm and running through February 10, 2024. Echikson’s illustrations are featured in Being Work, a forthcoming book from Insert Press, edited by Dorothy Dubrule. A collection of essays by dance and theater artists that describe the labor of performance within visual arts contexts, Being Work captures a spectrum of profound and mundane moments while asking how this kind of gig work is perceived and valued. Echikson’s eight illustrations for the book can be viewed alongside additional works by the artist in the exhibition Here Sometimes at General Projects.

Echikson's illustrations and original drawings for the book "Being Work," along with an edition of eight Archival InkJet prints are available online here and at the exhibition. The 11" x 17" prints are an edition of 5 plus 3 A.P.'s on 21mil Epson Cold Press Natural paper.

Echikson’s work weaves threads of memory, seamlessly blending past and present in a playful restoration and mending of imagery from the artist’s world. Echikson's creations serve up a rollercoaster of emotions, like a slide projector automatically advancing from image to image: humor, horror, rage, and fashion collide and are threaded together into these ever-oscillating feelings. Echikson’s works move through time and space to touch upon the gilded peaks of immortality, all while embracing the whimsy and innocence of their own inner-child.

Here Sometimes offers a captivating escape, beckoning viewers into the realm of daydreamers. Echikson's illustrations serve as portals into their own waking existence, seamlessly merging reality with a meticulously crafted realm nurtured since childhood. Echikson transports the viewer to a new place with its own lifeblood fueled by comics, friendship and memory. The exhibition pays tribute to the artist's enduring appreciation of friends and individuals who have come in and out of the artist's life, embracing those little abandonments and departures that lead to new paths and transformation.

Eileen Wolf Echikson is a self-taught artist based in Philadelphia. Eileen has completed work for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, World Cafe Live, Vans Shoes, and Philadelphia-based musician Sad13. Their comics have been featured in the 2022 Brooklyn Art Book Fair, Philly Zine Fest and Partners and Son’s annual Philly Comics Expo, and their work has been shown in galleries such as Space 1026, Fairmount House, and Paradigm Gallery. Being Work is Eileen's first book-length illustration project. They are currently pursuing librarianship.

The artist will be donating half of their proceeds from sales made through the duration of this exhibition to the Egyptian Red Crescent, an organization which is providing humanitarian aid to the people of Palestine. Free Palestine.

Chorus of Rotating Heads (Mireya Lucio), Cocoon Outside Time (Casey Brown), What do I Need (Jessica Emmanuel), Who Owns this Gesture (Kestrel Leah), As You were Leaving (Allie Hankins), Endless Scroll (effie bowen), The Slap (Paul Hamilton), Art Object Shame Spiral (Dorothy Dubrule)