Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
2-PERSON EXHIBITION
Myrel Chernick & Katy Martin
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
10 rue des Beaux-Arts
Paris 75006, France
Opening - Thursday, September 18, 2025, 6-8 pm
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about ghosts and painting on silk gauze as a kind of second skin. Ghosts, like painting, have a long and storied history of avoiding normal pathways and emerging through walls. Also, like painting, they reveal themselves differently, depending on the moment and how open you are. Then, too, they can vanish – or were they just an illusion? They can vanish before your eyes can focus on what you see.
Making art is a conjuring process – or rather, it’s ghost whispering or something like that. In the studio, I stand between two paintings I’ve made. The one behind me is on canvas and it’s pinned to the wall. The one I’m holding up in front of me is on translucent gauze and I’m moving it, rather slowly, to choreograph the photo image. Across the room, there’s a camera on a tripod and it’s set to take pictures at a slow shutter speed. As I move, the lines blur and the shapes they make change. My body disappears to make way for something else.
— Katy Martin, September 2025
— Click here for Myrel Chernick’s statement
