I deconstruct paintings into time-based video loop projections and minimalist abstract prints to explore feels, fields, and forms

hello, i’m eileen

I am an abstract painter, draftswoman, fiber, movement, and digital artist traveling the world, making and teaching art & artists. My work examines somatic and emotional residue through a diaristic multidisciplinary practice. The infinite surprise permutations that ephemeral abstraction produces is my source of inspiration.

I integrate dyeing, painting, collage, and wool tufting combined with digital and sound algorithms with photo compositing to produce unexpected visceral relationships of form and movement.

Eileen Cubbage has terminal degrees from Maryland Institute College of Art and Syracuse University, with residency attendance and group exhibitions at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Takt Kunstprojektraum in Berlin, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, New York Studio School Drawing Marathon, Pyramid Atlantic Paper Studio, FAVElab, Unity Space Athens, STOA Center for Body Art Studies in Sirence, Turkey, and Arthouse Pani in central Mexico. She is currently developing curriculum combining esoteric energy modalities, Butoh performance, and abstract drawing.
I dismantle years of layered canvas, grounds, and frames, photographing and digitally manipulating the raw remnants. Analog and digital methods converge to create dynamic representations of consciousness, perceived realities, and states of being.
Presented in looping segments tailored to audience attention spans and emotional durations, each frame extraction and expansion captures a fleeting yet infinite moment of existence.
My portfolio of prints from video stills is meticulous and consistent in craft, and joyously diverse in color, form, and shape. I offer a general print archive and limited collections.
My work transforms traditional painting techniques into time-based multimedia installations, merging drawing, painting, and collage processes into motion, sound, and high-definition video projections.
Within this performance framework, the central character is the painting itself, embodying the essence of Greek tragedy by depicting a character's self-destruction through their own actions.
My approach is rooted in the concept of open sculpture, aiming to create works that inhabit an unreal realm, undergoing metamorphosis across process and form.