Eileen O’Kane Kornreich is a New York–based visual artist whose practice spans more than forty-five years. Working across mixed-media drawing, painting, and printmaking, she currently layers colored graphite, pencils, watercolor, acrylic, and ink on canvas prepared with a paper-like ground. This surface enables her to build up color and medium in dynamic layers, emphasizing the movement and abstraction inherent in her forms.

Born in 1955, Kornreich’s work reflects decades of shifts and explorations, each stage leaving visible traces within her evolving practice. While her use of color and subject matter has transformed over time, one constant remains: the mark of her hand. Swirls, cuts, and vigorous lines collide and intersect to convey internal energies rather than external likenesses. Her process foregrounds the act of making—gestures that record urgency, pauses, and dialogue with the work itself. Though her brushstrokes suggest speed, waiting and contemplation are essential to her practice, as she allows each piece to unfold gradually, shaped by looking, listening, and living alongside it.

Kornreich is a member of the White Columns Artist Registry and Equity Gallery. In 2021–22, she expanded her practice with unique artist books and ceramic sculptures as part of her Bridge 3 series of oil paintings and multimedia scroll drawings. Highlights from this period include her 100-foot drawing performance in Warren Neidich’s Swept Away, Love Letter to a Surrogate(s) at Guild Hall (East Hampton, NY), as well as presentations at Dumbo Open Studios (Brooklyn, NY), LongHouse Reserve (East Hampton, NY), The Re Institute (Millerton, NY), and Julie Keyes Galleries (Sag Harbor, NY). Her recent work is featured on the White Columns Curated Artist Registry.

She has held residencies with the Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL, 2022), ChaNorth (Pine Plains, NY, 2021), The Watermill Center (Watermill, NY, 2019), and the School of Visual Arts (New York, 2019). Kornreich studied at the New York Studio School, the Art Students League, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.