Anyone who sees Eveleth’s artworks will gather how much she loves to paint. She loves paint’s smeary, buttery materiality, the way it can conjure up a layer of pink frosting or syrupy drool. She is a master of effects, from the scene’s dramatic lighting to the object’s careful positioning..... [John Yau, 2024]
For nearly two decades, Emily Eveleth has insistently pursued the ironic and expressive potential of her signature image, the ordinary and ubiquitous doughnut. Spanning the boundaries between portrait, landscape, and object of projected desire, Emily Eveleth’s paintings form a genre unto themselves. Her ongoing series of paintings of doughnuts invests this unlikely subject with unexpected presence and identity. “Eveleth's paintings restlessly shift across a spectrum of meanings, covering along the way all the distances between opposing significances; prosaic and profound, profane and sacred, banal and intriguing, to say nothing of the axis between cool asexuality and gushing, if veiled, sexuality.”
— John Stomberg, Director of the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College