Eileen Cubbage (b. 1976, Philadelphia, PA) holds terminal degrees from Maryland Institute College of Art and Syracuse University. She has participated in residencies and exhibitions at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, the New York Studio School Drawing Marathon, Pyramid Atlantic Paper Studio, Takt Kunstprojektraum Berlin, FAVElab Greece, Unity Space Athens, STOA Center for Body Art Studies in Sirence, Turkey, and Arthouse Pani in central Mexico. She has worked as an illustrator, designer and educator, having taught at Moore College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, Fleisher Art Memorial, SCAD Hong Kong and Savannah. She is currently developing curriculum for sensorimotor movement-based performance drawing and crafting an interdisciplinary book project.

  • I see the painting body as a sentient threshold—a fluid space where sensation, memory, and emotion converge, revealing how identity and perception evolve. Grounded in experiential performance and inspired by Didier Anzieu’s concept of the Skin Ego, my work explores the skin as both boundary and vessel, mediating exchanges between inner and outer worlds. Abstraction, as a lived process, invites us into the unknown, where form emerges through the body’s interaction with space, reflecting a transformation—an ecology of relational unfolding.

    Blending traditional techniques like dyeing, tufting, and painting with digital processes, my video projections echo the body’s ability to bridge sensory and immaterial realms. The tension between raw texture and polished interface reveals how tactility carries memory, grounding experience in the sensory, while the polished surface masks vulnerability, creating a distance from the body’s tangible presence.

    Inspired by Butoh performance and Michel Serres' reflections on bodily experience, my practice is a performance of transformation—a cyclical dismantling and reassembling of forms that mirrors the body’s encounters with the unknown. Through melding with materials, abstraction becomes a pathway for deeper understanding, carrying the complexity of being and revealing knowledge beyond the conscious.

    My work navigates the existential with a sense of shared curiosity, inviting viewers to explore how their bodies resonate with the fluid interplay of the tangible and the transitory. The interplay of analog and digital materials offers a morphing landscape of self that resists finality and holds space for becoming.