Elaine Reichek
Our Feelings (Akhmatova), 2018
hand embroidery on linen
12 ¾ x 19 inches
32,39 cm X 48,26 cm
32,39 cm X 48,26 cm
Transcription: Our feelings then were so much alike. And in the next room the future Was still trampling around like a crowd of extras Whispering among themselves and yawning And...
Transcription:
Our feelings then were so much alike.
And in the next room the future
Was still trampling around like a crowd of extras
Whispering among themselves and yawning
And knowing everything . . . . . in advance.
1940s
Tashkent-Leningrad
Judith Hemschemeyer, trans. and Roberta Reeder, ed., The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Boston: Zephyr Press, 1997).
Our feelings then were so much alike.
And in the next room the future
Was still trampling around like a crowd of extras
Whispering among themselves and yawning
And knowing everything . . . . . in advance.
1940s
Tashkent-Leningrad
Judith Hemschemeyer, trans. and Roberta Reeder, ed., The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Boston: Zephyr Press, 1997).
Exhibitions
Like a Crowd of Extras (group exhibition), Seven Sisters, Houston, TX, May 25–July 13, 2024Cloud Cover: Fall Group Exhibition, McClain Gallery, Houston, September 11, 2021 - October 23, 2021.
Culture Place | American Century: McClain Gallery booth, Dallas Art Fair, Online, July 9, 2020 - September 7, 2020.
Elaine Reichek: Between the Needle and the Book, January 18 – February 29, 2020. McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Elaine Reichek: Sight Unseen, May 17 - June 23, 2019. Marinaro, New York, NY.
Publications
Dorn, Erin. Between the Needle and the Book. Houston, TX: McClain Gallery. 2020
