Eileen Feng

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

With a clinical painterly hand, Eileen Feng (b.2003) catalogs the objects we identify with to create our sense of self. Consumer goods, furniture, clothing, heirlooms, books, currencies, and the mundane — all the domestic possessions we passively observe in daily life— are rendered in a meticulous realism that compels the viewer to actively consider their own subjective gaze. Like an anthropologist, Feng puts her practice in dialogue with various historiographies, bridging the gap between subjects' materiality and perception. She records each of her subjects from an austere distance that withholds any expressive intent, working the surface of the painting until the line between the real and the representational has been dissolved. The image, as it is, is left to reflect the viewers’ sense of desire and self.

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