The Body Remembers
December 13, 2025 - January 24, 2026
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David Klein Gallery is pleased to announce The Body Remembers, a group exhibition featuring new and recent work by Christian Curiel, Iris Eichenberg, Chelsea Harris, Kim McCarty, Alex McQuilkin, Neha Vedpathak, and Mia Weiner. The exhibition opens with a reception on Saturday, December 13th from 5–8 PM. An artist talk, moderated by Iris Eichenberg, will be held on Saturday, January 17, 2026 (time to be announced).
 
The Body Remembers explores the figure, the landscape, and the porous boundaries between them. Through painting, installation, watercolor, handwoven tapestry, and works on paper, the artists consider how the body serves as a site of memory, intimacy, and encounter. The initial concept of the exhibition emerged from Iris Eichenberg’s most recent body of work: a constellation of portraits on paper, ceramic, and fabric that form an unexpected landscape of objects and images. The interplay between body and place forms the connective thread uniting the artists in the exhibition. These objects collectively reflect the emotional, psychological, and sensorial dimensions of human experience.
 
Drawing from magic realism and Latin American cultural references, Christian Curiel’s paintings create a vivid tableau depicting figures in moments that are at once dreamlike and real. Through vibrant colors and layered materials, he constructs rich narratives that explore the fragile space between dreaming and waking. Rooted in memory and adolescence, his work reflects the twin themes of belonging and identity, as he attempts to capture the complex psychic tension associated with a young person coming of age.
 
Trained as a metalsmith, Iris Eichenberg works across installation, sculpture, metals, and body-related objects. She employs natural and noble materials including metal, wood, wheel thrown painted ceramic, linen fabric and ink on handmade paper, to explore the emotional and tactile dimensions of object making. Portraiture is a recurring theme in her work. Each object stands on its own as a portrait, yet the work finds its meaning when all of them come together.  Eichenberg’s practice bridges personal and material memory, often blurring the boundary between object and body while examining intimacy, longing, and the tactile politics of touch.
 
Chelsea Harris’ focuses on portraits of those closest to her -- each painting captures a fleeting moment in time. Grounded in personal relationships and guided by her ongoing engagement with the figure and memory, her work honors the quiet narratives that shape everyday life.
 
Known for her ethereal, translucent watercolors, Kim McCarty captures fleeting emotional states through her depictions of figures and flowers. Her intuitive process embraces spontaneity, striking a balance between abstraction and realism to convey the transient nature of human experience. In her work adolescents transform into adults and nature relentlessly cycles through the seasons, blooming, fading and blooming again.
 
Alex McQuilkin’s paintings combine a conceptual and deeply personal view.  Through a juxtaposition of found imagery and wallpaper motifs, she offers an inquiry into the construction and instability of feminine identity in contemporary culture. Reflecting her long-standing engagement with self-fashioning and the psychological nuances of representation, her paintings reveal not only the artifice of the image, but also the artifice of the roles the images project and perpetuate.
 
Painted, plucked and sewn, Neha Vedpathak’s works are colorful, lace-like abstract compositions. Vedpathak’s practice defies categorization, residing in a tactile space between many mediums. Leading with the material, she is a chronicler who weaves together inspiration and ideas from politics, feminism, and eastern philosophies. Through her studio practice Vedpathak aims to broaden the dialogue and understanding of issues related to identity, spirituality, and social and gender politics.
 
Mia Weiner presents intimate, handwoven works that explore identity, gender, desire, and the emotional dynamics of human relationships. Drawing on the rich history of textile production, she crafts tapestries that intertwine bodily presence with narrative, nature, and psychological depth, inviting viewers into spaces of closeness and personal reflection.

Across the exhibition, these artists present bodies that dissolve into landscapes, dream states that feel vividly real, and quiet moments of intimacy that hover between the everyday and the surreal. Together, their works offer a multifaceted consideration of how the body remembers—physically, emotionally, and imaginatively.