Stephen Eichhorn’s art practice revolves around the deceptively simple plant by exploring a range of dichotomies located within its physical and spiritual properties. Intricately cut out images of grasses, cacti, succulents and blooming flowers are placed, piled and arranged on colorful paper, board, and aluminum creating new forms that offer meditations on consciousness and time. Using design elements and materials sourced from botany textbooks and other publications, these works on paper and panel heighten our connection to the natural and man-made climates that surround us. 

Stephen Eichhorn lives and works in Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions at the Franklin Park Conservatory, Elmhurst Art Museum and the Chicago Athletic Association. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Tower Hill Botanic Gardens, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery, Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York.