EMILY EVELETH

"There’s a healthy amount of irony in Eveleth’s donut paintings, but she’s too jazzed on the technical and psychological possibilities of her subject to settle for irony. Her new canvases are medium-sized, neither monumental nor precious—donut portraits, you might say. If you study them together, you may have the intuition that this is the size donuts really are; by making them larger than life, paradoxically, Eveleth has made them life-sized, as in alive and breathing—not dough and jelly but flesh and blood."

- Jackson Arn, "Emily Eveleth"

"Entire books could be written about this painter’s use of pink—pink, the color of raw muscle and pale skin vexed to a blush, but also of plastic lawn flamingos and Valentine’s Day schmaltz. Eveleth knows how to have it both ways. In "Pleasures and Follies of a Good Natured Libertine," one kind of pink curdles into the other; what’s sensual and intimate grows tacky and lukewarm, with a strong chemical odor. But one pink doesn’t triumph over the other any more than folly triumphs over pleasure; each holds the other steady, creating a host of associations that haunt you well after you’ve looked away."

- Jackson Arn, "Emily Eveleth"