Lot 12: Eileen O'Kane Kornreich "Rex" Acrylic on Unstretched Canvas

Eileen O’Kane Kornreich is a visual artist based in New York City. In 2019 Eileen has been an AIR at The Watermill Center and School of Visual Arts. In 1978, Eileen helped to re-establish Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton as a DIY gallery for artists’ solo shows. She moved on to Manhattan and Brooklyn setting up artists’ studios as short-term galleries until the late 1980s. When family responsibilities forced her to alter her art making practice in the 1990s, Eileen turned her focus to helping with funding artist-run non-profit organizations. The last few years, she has been instrumental in securing funding for Joe’s PubWorking Group residencies at Joe’s Pub of The Public Theater as well as establishing Joe’s Pub’s first benefit for the new year-long Vanguard Residency. The first Vanguard artist, Nona Hendryx, developed a multidisciplinary theater piece, Refrigerator Dreams, based on Carrie Mae Weems’s Kitchen Table Series, in which Carrie Mae Weems performed in the premiere at Joe’s Pub in 2018. Eileen has had an intimate multi-decade relationship with The Watermill Center. In recent years she has been a supporter of the Summer Lecture Series. Eileen’s involvement in other art organizations past and present includes: Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya’s LEIMAY and CAVE studio and Women Artist: Reshaping the Conversation, a series of panel discussions at LongHouse Reserve.

63.5x45.5

Acrylic on Unstretched Canvas

2020

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Artist's Studio