PRIV.Y Gallery

Come Over

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PRIV.Y Gallery is pleased to present Come Over, a two-person exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Katherine

Auchterlonie, and photographer Y ahshel. The exhibition will open on November 13, 2025, with an opening

reception from 6pm to 8pm. On view through December 5, 2025 at 46 Hester in New York. The gallery is open

to the public weekends 12pm- 6pm, by appointment Monday through Friday.

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Katherine Auchterlonie and Yahshel present their second collaborative exhibition, encompassing photography,

painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation.

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Conceived around the artists' shared apartment in New York, the exhibition examines the ways in which their individual visual languages, developed through distinct yet sympathetic practices, intersect to articulate experience in the absence of authentic or fixed context. In this shared inquiry, the home becomes both subject and metaphor.

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At its core, Come Over is an exploration of translation—how an internal or sensory experience becomes

externalized through image, gesture, or form. The domestic environment serves as a generative conduit for this

investigation, as a space that inherently oscillates between concealment and exposure, union and distance. The

home, in this case, is not simply a setting but an organism, a site of accumulation and exchange. It is both origin

and archive. Within this framework, Auchterlonie and Y ahshel examine how the intimacy of the domestic

sphere transforms when made visible to others, and how meaning shifts when context is altered, fragmented, or

entirely absent.

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Auchterlonie’s paintings are guided by a fluid abstract notation system, an evolving visual language developed by

the artist and born from her study of systems of notation and symbology. By way of this self-devised system, her

paintings act as a catalog of sensory and emotional experience. With an analytical yet deeply intuitive hand, her

mark-making reads as a transcript of perception, each gesture becoming a linguistic unit.

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Exhibited alongside her abstract works are a series of still lifes, depicting solitary pillows, in the form of both oil

paintings on copper plates and works on paper. With these still lifes, Auchterlonie extends her inquiry, ushering

the idea of “impression” from mental to material, internal to external. The creases and folds in the pillow’s

surface, imprints left behind by slumber, sex, or rest, become a physical vestige of experience: memory as form.

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Here, Auchterlonie studies an object that speaks the language of her abstract paintings. The pillow emerges as a

bridge between interior consciousness and external form—a domestic object that, through use, records the

passage of time.

 

Yahshel’s photographic practice operates at a harmonious phenomenological register. Her often tightly framed

compositions, marked by subtle manipulations of light and shadow, create a sense of proximity that resists

disclosure. What is withheld or omitted in the frame brings a larger emotional and atmospheric expanse, evoking

characteristics of memory—partial, layered, and often felt more than recalled. There is an integrity with and

toward her subject, her beloved, whereby her images function less as portraits than as meditations on presence and tenderness. In this way, Yahshel’s work seems to occupy a space between documentation and elegy,

transforming moments of attention into visual acts of preservation and reverence.

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As we look with our chance neighbor in the gallery at things normally seen in private, we are jostled into

cognizance. To some degree, one is confronted with a sense of isolation, of dislocation, igniting a hyperawareness

of oneself and one’s surroundings.

 

Come Over  ultimately suggests that to view is to inhabit a state of displacement, to be situated simultaneously within and outside the experience of another. Their work coming together in a virtuosic pas de deux, Auchterlonie and Yahshel offer not an assertion of meaning, but an unfolding of sensibility, an investigation into the ways in which the personal, when rendered visible, acquires new forms of resonance and estrangement.

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Words by Cielle Hart

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Katherine Auchterlonie (b. 1999, Portland, OR) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York.

Auchterlonie worked as an early childhood arts education teacher for a number of years following her studies in

Art History at Austin Community College, Willamette University, and Texas State University. Her work has

recently been exhibited at Charmoli Charmoli (New York, NY), Sitting Room Gallery (New York, NY),

Spy Projects at Brooke Alexander Gallery (New York, NY), and Ross + Kramer Gallery (New York, NY).

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Yahshel (b. 1996, Manila, PH) is an artist and photographer living and working in New York. Her work has been

exhibited at Charmoli Charmoli (New York, NY) and Sitting Room Gallery (New York, NY).

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An artist talk led by Cielle Hart will be held in the space from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm on Monday, November 30th,

2025.