ALETHEIA
Aletheia
February 25 - March 2, 2026
Opening reception: 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.
callie d. cohen lives and works in New York City
“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.”
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
Detail Beautiful means most self, 1994-2025
callie d. cohen
I/eye, 1994-2026
photograph, glass eye, acrylic and gesso on panel, on chantilly lace painted support
20 x 44 1/2 x 6 inches
Detail I/eye, 1994-2025
callie d. cohen
Nasty woman (beast), 2016-2025
ceramic and press-on nail, gesso on panel, on chantilly lace painted support
28 x 44 1/2 x 6 inches
Detail Nasty woman (beast), 2016-2026
callie d. cohen
Double gold mourning, 2024
acrylic and gesso on panel, on chantilly lace painted support
28 x 44 1/2 x 6 inches
callie d. cohen
The Passenger (1975), 2016-2026
1929 Royal typewriter, acrylic and gesso on panel, discontinued black M.A.C. glitter on chantilly lace painted support
35 x 56 x 14 3/4 inches
callie d. cohen K.O., 2024 acrylic on panel 16 x 12 inches
callie d. cohen Untitled 4, 2024 acrylic on panel 16 x 12 inches
callie d. cohen ü, 2024 acrylic on panel 20 x 16 inches
callie d. cohen Baby Alien, 2024 acrylic and gesso on panel 16 x 12 inches
callie d. cohen Alien, 2024 acrylic and gesso on panel 20 x 16 inches
callie d. cohen Edge, 2024 acrylic on panel 20 x 16 inches