We are honored to announce that Matt Eich’s work has been included in a four-person group show at the Art Museum of West Virginia University titled In Conversation with Walker Evans : Four Photographers. This show includes work by our represented Artist, Matt Eich as well as fellow contemporaries Mitch Epstein, Andrea Modica, and Jared Thorne and was designed as companion show for the Museum’s Walker Evans American Photographs exhibition, also on view at the Museum. Selected contemporary Artists "make pictures that resonate with Walker Evans’s photographs in distinctive ways, both visually and conceptually—and sometimes unexpectedly. Together they demonstrate how Evans’s work continues to influence artists today, nearly a century after he first visited the region," the exhibition text describes.
Featured by Eich in the In Conversation exhibition are powerful selections from The Invisible Yoke Vol. I : Carry Me Ohio (a series we exhibited in 2016) that remains more than a nuanced portrayal of a handful of small Ohio towns, but a finger on the pulse of Middle America. As fresh and relevant today as when they were made, some over a decade ago, Eich’s photographs are intimate and gruff, heavy but hopeful.
Related: Zoom program : February 17, 2021 | 3:30 PST (6:30 Eastern)
"Come as You Are," A Collaboration
Matt Eich with Doug Van Gundy
Matt Eich and Doug Van Gundy (poet) first met on an Economic Hardship Reporting Project assignment in 2017. Matt and Doug traveled to Webster County, WV — home to one of the lowest per-capita incomes in the state, and indeed, the nation — to speak with residents of the county and communicate their experiences honestly and accurately through documentary photographs and narrative poems.