Eric Uhlir
530 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001, (212) 255-2718, nygallery@winstonwachter.com
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Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us. Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.
Eric Uhlir | The Long Light September 10th - October 31st, 2026
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Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us. Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.
Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to present The Long Light, a new series of paintings by Eric Uhlir. In his second solo show with the gallery, Uhlir turns the lens onto himself, utilizing paint to create a body of work inspired by the effect that time has on places and the people who loved within them. Uhlir’s compositions are created through layered mark-making of oil on linen, built up with brushes and then cut back with scrapers and solvents. Working fluidly between figuration and abstraction, each painting unfolds as environments rather than images, immersive fields where history and the present intermingle. Within the selection of works on view, large surfaces give space for both sweeping gestures and quiet, minute moments to breathe. The smaller works are intimate in scale and immediate in touch, carrying a negotiation between figure and field. “I build the image up and take half of it back. This is my technique but also a reflection of how our memory works.” Continuing his practice of referencing art historical narratives, Uhlir is now incorporating the examination of his own history and experiences in his work. This newest body of work comes out of a specific period of loss and domestic change. The titles of each work, such as The warm and the cold and Once a favorite tree, reflect that landscape and marriage, weather and memory, are the same subject at different temperatures. Each image accrues and erodes the same way that memory does.
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Eric Uhlir has spent twostoryteller decadeswhose building paintings that balance on the threshold of refDeb Achak is a visual artist and erence and the act of looking. In The Long Light, Uhlir captures a moment in each piece large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional between the or human and natural where a link body, a room, a memory assembles itself out of paint, focusing in on the light world.that After stepping away from a 15-year career a life accumulates and the forms it releases. as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium Eric Uhlir (American, b. 1979) grew up in Southern California and earned his BFA from the to continue her exploration of the interior lives of Texas at 2003. He had a solo exhibition with Winston Wachter, NY in herselfUniversity and others.ofCurious to Austin examineinthe notion and has exhibited at IA&A at Hillyer of our2024 internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of in Washington, DC, and with Caitlin Berry Fine Art at Culture House, among others. photography by employing several genres withinRecent commissions include SoHo House West Holthe medium. practice Consulting includes swimming lywoodAchak’s and Deloitte in Washington, DC. His work is held in private collections with her camera throughout world, personal internationally. Uhlirthe maintains a studio in Los Angeles, CA. narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us. Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.
Eric Uhlir The sun’s dazzle (your delight), 2026 Oil on linen 36 x 48 inches
Eric Uhlir The lilac time (Arboretum II), 2026 Oil on linen 36 × 48 inches
Eric Uhlir Untitled (small woodland study), 2026 Oil on linen 9 × 12 inches
Eric Uhlir Untitled (the couple), 2026 Oil on linen 10.5 x 8.5 inches
Eric Uhlir Untitled (thistles), 2026 Oil on linen 8.5 × 10.5 inches
Eric Uhlir A June heat (forever distance), 2026 Oil on linen 30 × 24 inches
Eric Uhlir All the lovely charms, 2026 Oil on linen 24 × 30 inches
Eric Uhlir Away for a while, 2026 Oil on linen 18 × 20 inches
Eric Uhlir It’s dawn inspiration, 2025 Oil on linen 14 × 24 inches
Eric Uhlir Anniversary, 2026 Oil on linen 18 × 20 inches
Eric Uhlir Once a favorite tree, 2026 Oil on linen 18 × 20 inches
Eric Uhlir Rain-Charm (quiet the valley), 2026 Oil on linen 24 x 30 inches
Eric Uhlir Unnatural comfort, 2026 Oil on linen 36 × 48 inches
Eric Uhlir The warm and the cold, 2025 Oil on linen 48 × 60 inches
Eric Uhlir Perfumed (The deaf adder of appetite), 2025 Oil on linen 48 × 60 inches
Eric Uhlir Roe-Deer, 2025 Oil on linen 36 × 48 inches
Eric Uhlir Only in summer (crashed among the raspberries), 2026 Oil on linen 60 × 72 inches
Eric Uhlir Daffodils, 2026 Oil on linen 66 × 72 inches
Eric Uhlir Arboretum, 2026 Oil on linen 72 × 82 inches
Eric Uhlir In a thorn hedge, 2026 Oil on linen 66 × 72 inches
Eric Uhlir The long light, 2026 Oil on linen 78 × 48 inches
Eric Uhlir Queue Street, 2026 Oil on linen 48 × 60 inches
ERIC UHLIR SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Born in California, 1979
2026 Let’s Escape the Ordinary, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY
EDUCATION 2003 BFA University of Texas at Austin SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2025 Soho House West Hollywood Commission, West Hollywood, CA 2024 Armida & Rinaldo, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY 2021 Eudaimonia, Homme Gallery, Washington D.C. Before, After and In Between, Culture House, Washington, D.C. 2020 Remember an Infinite Wave, Caitlin Berry Fine Art: Washington, D.C. 2019 Recalled in Human Memory, IA&A at Hillyer: Washington, D.C.
2024 Roamer Project, Madrid, Spain Echoes of Being, Tappan Collective, Los Angles, CA 2023 A Colorful Life, HOTBED: Philadelphia, PA Here We Show Again, The Strathmore, Washington, D.C. 2021 Now and at the Hour, HOTBED: Philadelphia, PA 2019 Recalled in Human Memory, IA&A at Hillyer: Washington, D.C.
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
COMMISSIONS
2025 McCarthy, Emma. “Meet the artist behind Soho House’s largest-ever global commission.” House Notes, 1 Oct. 2025, Soho House
2025 The Soho House, West Hollywood, CA
2024 Su, Ariel. “An Exclusive Interview with Eric Uhler.” Art Market Magazine, Apr. 2024. Web.
2024 The Ned Club (Soho House), Washington DC 2023 Deloitte Tech & Strategy Consulting, Washington DC
2023 Boynes, Chantal. “Artist Eric Uhlir.” Boynes Artist Award, 11 Nov. 2023,
PRESS
“Recalled in Human Memory: Q&A with Eric Uhlir, IA & A At Hillyer, Jul. 2023
2024 The Ned Club (Soho House), Washington DC
2021 “Eric Uhlir: Before, After and In Between.” Culture House, 10 Apr. 2021–8 May 2021, culturehousedc.org/gallery-ericuhlir. East City Art Editorial Team. “Caitlin Berry Fine Art at Culture House Presents Eric Uhlir: Before, After and In Between.” East City Art, 5 Apr. 2021
2023 “Artist Eric Uhlir”, Boynes Artist Award, Chantal Boynes, Nov. 2023 “Recalled in Human Memory: Q&A with Eric Uhlir, IA & A At Hillyer, July 2023 2021 Eric Uhlir: Before, After and In Between, Culture House, April 2021 Caitlin Berry Fine 2020 Art Presents Eric Uhlir Remember An Infinite Wave, Oct. 2020 PRESS
Eric Uhlir | The Long Light September 10th - October 31st, 2026 Winston Wächter Fine Art 530 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (212) 255-2718 nygallery@winstonwachter.com Publication ©2026 Winston Wächter Fine Art All rights reserved Catalog Design by Nóra Reynolds Cover: Arboretum, 2026
ARTIST NAME Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us. Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.