As Above So Below features paintings and work on paper, which examine rhythmic continuities found in the microscopic and macroscopic world. Compositions of calligraphic gestures suggest loose tangles floating beneath and above the accent points they connect. The artist sometimes refers to this sweeping line work as “connective tissue”, or the invisible thread that binds all things in the natural world. Physicists are calling this invisible thread “String Theory” which attempts to explain the connection between matter.

Eby's marks suggest bubbles, wings, star clusters and flight tracers. These marks hover between layers of poured wax like elements sealed in a translucent archival record of time, as if captured in ice sheets, or alabaster or fog. The painting’s ethereal quality and nebulous scale create a visual experience racking focus and shifting tangible form to intangible motion, as if observed through a telescope or microscope.

In considering the energy of the paintings, Toby, Callahan and Pollock come to mind, as do inky Asian landscapes. This is no surprise, as Eby grew up in the Northwest and studied in Japan. Eby’s work intertwines her divergent interests as a musician, naturalist, abstract painter and materialist resulting in gestural paintings that mimic chaos through rhythms of a golden mean.











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