Bortolami is pleased to present Echo, an exhibition of new paintings by Sophie Reinhold, the artist’s first with the gallery and in New York. The exhibition takes its title from the ancient Greek myth of the nymph of the same name, cursed to repeat only the last words spoken by others when speaking herself. In this new body of work, Reinhold builds upon her technique of applying layers of colored marble and graphite powder to jute with her hands, polishing to achieve varying levels of reflectiveness, and finishing with oil paint to produce surfaces that have a tactile, sculptural quality. The resulting abstract and representational images are a kaleidoscope of color and energy that are at once ordered and intuitive, with forms that radiate and reverberate.
