Echo Eggebrecht (born 1977) is an American artist and academic known for landscape paintings.

Education

Eggebrecht earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...

. She also attended the

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an artists residency located in Madison, Maine, just outside of Skowhegan. Every year, the program accepts online applications from emerging artists from November through January, and selects 65 t ...

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Career

Her artist residencies have included the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She is represented by Horton Gallery, New York. She has held solo exhibitions at Horton Gallery, New York; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Ter Caemer Meert Contemporary, Kortijk,

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; Sixtyseven, New York and Sixspace in

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as well as group exhibitions at the

Brooklyn Academy of Music The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant-garde performance. It presented its first performance in 1861 and began operations in its present location in ...

; ICA; Nicole Klagsburn; and White Box in

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; Groeflin Maag Gallery in

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, Poets on Painters at the Ulrich Museum and the Flinn Gallery at the

Greenwich Library Greenwich Library is the main library in the Greenwich library system of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. The Greenwich Library system consists of the Main Library and its Byram Shubert and Cos Cob branches. History Originally established in ...

. In a review in ''

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'' of Eggebrecht's solo show at Gallery Sixtyseven, Roberta Smith wrote that Eggebrecht her art "favors empty landscapes, whose roiled grass is meticulously rendered and dotted with wry contradictions and bits of Americana." Another reviewer, John Haber, feels that Eggebrecht's paintings tell detailed, if disturbing, stories. Much of her art is small-scale and she favors a faux-naive or surreal style. Eggebrecht has worked as a painting instructor at

Tyler School of Art and Architecture The Tyler School of Art and Architecture is based at Temple University, a large, urban, public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tyler currently enrolls about 1,350 undergraduate students and about 200 graduate students in a wid ...

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

and as an assistant professor of Art at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

Notable exhibitions

* ''Spells, Spoils & Lucky Charms'', Horton Gallery, New York * Next Wave Art,

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, New York * Poets on Painters, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS and The Queens Library Gallery, New York, NY * The Golden Record, Lincoln Museum, Edinburgh, UK

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