Betsy Eby
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.
Betsy Eby | Chromatic Frequencies October 30th - December 20th, 2025
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.
Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to present Chromatic Frequencies, a new body of encaustic paintings by Betsy Eby exploring the visualization of sound and harmonic connection. As both a painter and musician, Eby brings a rare sensitivity to her practice, drawing on her heightened perceptual gifts, creating correspondences between color, rhythms and sound.
Chromatic Frequencies emerges from Eby’s recent personal journey. Following major neurosurgery, she turned to Solfeggio Frequencies, soundscapes rooted in hertz frequencies known by researchers to have healing properties on the brain and body’s neural networks. An evolution of her lifelong practice of painting nature based abstractions, this body of work explores themes on a quantum level at once read micro and macroscopically, bringing together Eby’s love of music, colorfield painting, rhythmic line and materiality. She builds resonant color fields representing harmonic systems then disrupts those systems with the embodiment of gestural line work. The lines bury, recede and emerge, hovering amidst luminous fields. One painting to the next explores analogous or contrasting color worlds, decisions affecting their resulting moods. Eby speaks of the Japanese process, Kintsugi, or “golden repair,” a tradition in which broken vessels are mended with precious metals, celebrating scars as markers of resilience. “The act of painting is a recognition of the beauty found through survival, with each painting being a record of systems disrupted then renewed,” Eby states. Chromatic Frequencies reflects Eby’s belief in the healing power of sound translated into material form.
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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 employing genres within Betsy by Eby earnedseveral her BA in Art History at the University of Oregon in 1990 and the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming has since exhibited her artworks widely, showing across the United States and with her camera throughout the world, personal Europe. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections including narratives created near her home, and painterly the Tacoma Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art. She and her husabstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each Bothe Bartlett, their time between studios in Columbus, Georgia, body band, of work painter is made with singular split ideal, to and Island, Maine. A native wrestle withWheaton what is under the surface in each of us. to Oregon, Eby cites her early influences in
the Northwest mystics, Pacific Northwest modernism and atmospheric abstraction. work has been exhibited widely naDeb Achak’s tional 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.
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 1, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 42 x 30 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 1a, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 12 x 12 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 1b, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 12 x 12 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 1c, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 12 x 12 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 1d, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 12 x 12 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 4, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 50 x 48 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 6, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 50 x 44 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 8, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 47.5 x 47.5 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 9, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 47.5 x 47.5 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 10, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 50 x 44 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 11, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 42 x 36 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 12, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 47.5 x 47.5 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 14, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 59.5 x 59.5 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 15, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 42 x 36 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 16, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 14 x 11 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 17, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 14 x 11 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 18, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 14 x 11 inches
Betsy Eby Chromatic Frequency No. 19, 2025 Encaustic and oil on panel 14 x 11 inches
BETSY EBY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1967 Born in Seaside, Oregon EDUCATION 1990 University of Oregon, B.A. Art History SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2025 Chromatic Frequencies, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY 2024 Of This Natural World, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
2021 You Are the Sky, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2020 Mystics, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
Atlantic, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME Garden Riot, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY 2018 I AM OCEAN, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
Bellwether, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2017 Frequency, Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
Beyond Measure, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2023 Milk and Honey, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2015 Songs for the Delta, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2022 This is Where I Begin, Winston Wäcter Fine Art, New York, NY
Painting With Fire, Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA
Paintings From Wheaton, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Southern Spirituals, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2025 A Collective Perspective, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
A Certain Kind of Hell, Karma Gallery, South Thomaston, ME Seattle Art Fair, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
Women of the Pacific Northwest, Asheville Museum, Asheville, NC Women of the Pacific Northwest, The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA 2024 June Features, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME 2023 Holiday Exhibition, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
Abstract Visions, Somerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, DE 2022 COMPETERE: an exhibition of artist couples, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA
Epilogue, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA
2021 Past, Present, Future, Somerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Songs Without Words: The Art of Music, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY 7+7 Established and Emerging Artists of the Chattahoochee Valley, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY From the Inside Out, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA View From Here, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME 2020 Summer Group Show, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Betsy Eby, Chris Hayman, James Henderson, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA Betsy Eby & Alyssa Monks, Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT 2019 Betsy Eby and Bo Bartlett, Ithan Substation, Villanova, PA
Exhibition at the Powerstation, Villanova, PA
Betsy Eby | Chromatic Frequencies October 30th - December 20th, 2025 Winston Wächter Fine Art 530 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (212) 255-2718 nygallery@winstonwachter.com Publication ©2025 Winston Wächter Fine Art All rights reserved Catalog Design by Nóra Reynolds Cover: Chromatic Frequency No. 11, 2025
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.