How Delightfully Boring
by Charlie Newman
The artist b cheyhayeb’s works on paper hark back to childhood summers where the days of the week bleed into one and time is primarily spent outdoors, swimming, writing and playing or watching sports. Growing up under the sweeping sunlit skies of Texas taught cheyhayeb the importance of being “connected to the earth”. Now living in New York, art offers her the
opportunity to tap back into her childhood self. “Because I make work about memory there is meditation and a lot of emotional processing already in the studio,” she says. At The Armory Show in New York with the OCHI gallery and at London’s Workplace gallery this autumn, you’ll find cheyhayeb’s great swathes of vivid colour interjected with swiftly depicted objects – bikini bottoms, cactuses, baseball caps, cigarettes. They are all moments of heady summers not forgotten.
