2021 Installation
Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY






"Eveleth's paintings are lurid, funny, unsettling, sexy, off-putting, luscious, puffy, bawdy, and excessive."

- John Yau review in Hyperallergic, October 28, 2021.


Innocence
2021, 26 x 18 inches






"A painting called Innocence, which shows sugary pink juices running sweatily down a donut's underside, may be plenty of things, but innocent is not one of them."

- Jackson Arn, 2021, Miles McEnery catalog


Odyssey
2021, 26 x 18 inches






Without Shame
2021, 26 x 18 inches






"Elsewhere (the foreground of Odyssey is a prime example), she paints smooth, glowing glazes and jellies, but in rough, cracked, dirty strokes that become more menacing the longer you stare at them. Plenty of artists have painted food that looks good enough to eat; plenty of others have painted food that looks rotten or sickly. Here, too, Eveleth's trick is to have it both ways: to evoke, in the same image, the bright, lush, all-American lawn from the opening scene of Blue Velvet as well as the gnashing insects hiding beneath it."

- Jackson Arn, 2021


Pearls of the Rainbow
2021, 26 x 18 inches






Love's Mirror
2021, 26 x 18 inches






Pleasure and Follies of a Good Natured Libertine
2020, 26 x 18 inches






"Everything is about sex, the joke goes, except sex, which is about power. I'm reminded of this when I look at Eveleth's work: Sex is always there, to be sure, but just out of view, and the more explicitly it's suggested the more it comes to seem like a cipher for something else."

- Jackson Arn, 2021, Miles McEnery catalog


The Sweetest Fruit
2021, 26 x 18 inches






Without Violence, After Bataille
2021, 26 x 18 inches






The Watcher and the Watched
2021, 26 x 18 inches






"At a glance, The Watcher and the Watched, a particularly in-your-face Courbet homage, might look more like pornography than erotic art, but that pornographic literalism creates its own peculiar set of metaphors. The incontinent hole leaking thick, dark fluid, suggests, because it's so in-your-face, any number of out-there associations: the origin of the world and its end, a wound, a mouth, and even—thanks in part to the title—an eye."

- Jackson Arn, 2021, Miles McEnery catalog


The Pleasure Thieves
2021, 26 x 18 inches






Boudoir
2021, 26 x 18 inches






"Think of the doughnuts as characters in a nameless drama, and how the stage and costume designer, along with the lighting director, can inflect the mood. The pale pinks, yellows, and opalescent whites in "Boudoir" (2021), and the angle of the doughnut's pose, pink frosting melting down its front edge, brought to mind the paintings of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, particularly "The Swing" (1767)."

- John Yau, 2021


Abandon
2021, 26 x 18 inches






The Quintessence of Debauchery
2021, 26 x 18 inches






Castle at the End of Love
2021, 26 x 18 inches






A Tale of Satisfied Desire
2021, 26 x 18 inches






"Blinding ourselves to the plain and obvious is the first step toward a deeper vision of both art and life."

- Georges Bataille