Eva Faye

Ocean Road No.8, 2019
Oil on cut vellum
69 x 47 inches

Artist Statement
Connecting with nature feels so important right now. As I walk down Ocean Road approaching the beach, I know I will be greeted with solace and discovery. I work in solitude each day, as I always have, and think of others that are unfamiliar with this experience. I’ve placed a work from my current series “Ocean Road” outside my home, as a symbol of that separation and isolation. As you ‘drive by’ my home and continue onto Ocean Road, I hope you may also catch glimpses of the language and shapes of our local nature that inspire me. I am grateful to this place and for the endurance of human connections that can never be severed, no matter the physical distance.

Eva Faye
Ocean Road No.8, 2019
Oil on cut vellum
69 x 47 inches

Biography
Eva Faye is from Oslo, Norway, currently living in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at the Ecole Superieure d’Arts Graphiques and the Parsons School of Design in Paris and New York City, prior to her Master of Fine Arts Degree at Hunter College. Over the past thirty years, her drawings and paintings have been widely exhibited in Norway and the United States. She is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and numerous Norwegian grants and artist awards. Her work is prominent in many esteemed private and public collections, such as The National Gallery of Art, Oslo, Norway, The Norwegian Council for the Arts, Bærum Kommune, Norway, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, DNB Bank, New York City and Montefiore Art Collection, New York.

Eva’s work finds genesis in the mutual observance of nature; looking into her own inner archeology and vulnerability to transliterate what is nonverbal into external forms and substance. Her organic patterns map musings, memory and manifestations of the body onto vellum, paint, linen and wood. She has cultivated her practice with vellum over the past decade as a material that is demonstrative of organicity — supple, translucent, tensile and membrane-like. Once crafted from stretched animal skin, it was the material on which our ancient manuscripts were written and illustrated. Inherently, it is a medium that evolved alongside human thought, now manufactured and synthetic in our post-Industrialist world. Entrenched in metaphors of dichotomy and transience, Eva works in unison with its ephemeral and diaphanous nature — puncturing, cutting and painting — to provoke tessellated moments of visual time and experience. From afar, her work appears mathematical and fractalated, yet every cut into the vellum bears the mark of Eva’s hand. Her present series introduces oversized vellum pieces, reverentially cut and coated with oil paint and mounted to float from the wall. This dimensionality of lightness and form echo organic patterns within all life, reciprocally formed and deepened through the physicality of creation.