Eeeeeee!

NIAD Virtual Gallery

Curated by Sarah Faux

An ink drawing on paper. The artist has written the capital letter E in black ink, repeated in rows that fill the entire page.

About the Exhibition

On its own, "e" is a simple sound. But repeated, as in Serena Scott's E, this letter can turn into an excited squeal, a feeling of too-much-ness that can't be contained. "Eeeeeee!" is a close neighbor of the word “weeeeee!” but a little harder to define. 

This collection of 20 works by NIAD artists celebrates the fact that a simple letter can transform into a feeling, repeated numbers can morph into mesh, a group of body parts can become a code language.

The art works here linger on the tip of your tongue, somewhere between image, language, and the unspeakably joyful shape of an open mouth exclaiming "eeeeeee!"

About the Curator

Sarah Faux was born in Boston, MA. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Faux has held solo exhibitions at Hales Gallery (NYC), M+B (Los Angeles, CA), Capsule Shanghai (Shanghai), and Stems Gallery (Brussels), among others. She has also shown in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad. Faux’s paintings have been written up in ArtsyCultured MagazineModern Painters, i-D Vice and more. Faux has been the recipient of residencies and grants, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2023), Keyholder Fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop, NYC (2018-19) and artist residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2017, 2012). Faux holds an MFA in Painting from Yale University and a joint BA/BFA from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design.