callie d.
Aletheia
Eidmann Gallery extends a warm welcome to callie d. cohen’s Los Angeles exhibition, Aletheia, sited in a 1920s Spanish Mission style building in West Hollywood.
callie d. cohen
Aletheia
February 25 - March 2, 2026
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 25, 12-4pm
Eidmann Gallery extends a warm welcome to callie d. cohen’s Los Angeles exhibition, Aletheia, sited in a 1920s Spanish Mission style building in West Hollywood.
cohen will show works dating from 1994 through 2025 consisting of paintings, photography, and found objects perched on shelves. Exploring slippages of memory, identity, and form, each piece challenges the viewer to thread together what is on the shelves geometrically and narratively: paintings of lace, photographs of furniture, bone, ash, boots, a vial, a wrapped package, a ceramic finger, a glass eye.
Aletheia probes and pollinates vision, selfhood, and perception. In I/eye (1994–2025), a glass eye embedded within a photographic field interrupts the image’s authority, offering a meditation on seeing and being seen. Beautiful means most self (1994–2025) assembles personal remnants into a still life that functions both as sculpture and altar. Here collecting is caretaking, revealing how private objects endure and acquire public legibility. cohen’s world building asks us to witness what endures beyond notice.
“The clown is different. The clown gets up before an audience and risks letting whatever is inside them seep out, just as analysands in psychoanalysis free associate, let their thoughts go wherever the mind takes them. While the analyst searches for the analysand’s True Self by way of material that reveals the unconscious, the actor in clown school seeks to discover it by way of their spontaneous expressions. These processes are similar to what philosopher Martin Heidegger terms aletheia, or truth as unconcealment. The clearest expression I’ve heard of aletheia came years ago, when I overheard my then three-year-old daughter call someone beautiful. I asked,What does beautiful mean? Still close to her clown, she replied, ‘Beautiful means most self. ”
Work
callie d. cohen K.O., 2024
acrylic on panel
16 x 12 inches
callie d. cohen ü, 2024
acrylic on panel
20 x 16 inches
callie d. cohen Alien, 2024
acrylic and gesso on panel
20 x 16 inches
callie d. cohen
Beautiful means most self, 1994-2025
Lightly worn By Far women’s silver leather metallic Chelsea booties size 41, acrylic and gesso on panel, polaroid, pencil on wrapped gift of unknown book for unknown recipient, snuff bottle with pandemic-era cannabis ash, bone, on chantilly lace painted support
35 x 45 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches
