



foot bed memory
hand printed photo on canvas, pine and brass brad frame
Ethan Caflisch’s multimedia works fuse hand-printed photographs, textiles, and handbuilt frames into compositions that balance precision with imperfection. These pieces are also color studies, embracing the beauty in the unprecious, where test prints and experiments become finished works in their own right.
Some images function as mimicry, others as translations, but a central figure recurs—a grounding force within shifting textures and tones. By layering materials and meaning, Caflisch creates works that feel both constructed and organic, inviting the viewer to engage with the tension between process and finality, memory and material, presence and absence.
In Caflisch’s Words:
the landscape appears in all these works. but they’re also color studies with a special consideration to treat tests as final works. the beauty in the unprecious. some act as mimicry, some act as translations, but centrally there’s a consistent figure to help guide and ground the image.
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Ethan Caflisch’s multimedia works fuse hand-printed photographs, textiles, and handbuilt frames into compositions that balance precision with imperfection. These pieces are also color studies, embracing the beauty in the unprecious, where test prints and experiments become finished works in their own right.
Some images function as mimicry, others as translations, but a central figure recurs—a grounding force within shifting textures and tones. By layering materials and meaning, Caflisch creates works that feel both constructed and organic, inviting the viewer to engage with the tension between process and finality, memory and material, presence and absence.
In Caflisch’s Words:
the landscape appears in all these works. but they’re also color studies with a special consideration to treat tests as final works. the beauty in the unprecious. some act as mimicry, some act as translations, but centrally there’s a consistent figure to help guide and ground the image.
Artwork Information
Year
2024
Materials
hand printed photo on canvas, pine and brass brad frame
Authentication
Signed by Artist
The work comes with a Certification of Authenticity signed by the Co-Founder of Tappan
Dimensions
12 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
12 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
Limited Edition Prints and Photography are custom trimmed with border for framing 2" for all larger sizes.
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“...still constantly remind myself of H.D. Thoreau’s quote “rather than love, than money, than fame; give me truth.” I think this is a crucial mentality to have as an artist, and any other profession; that success, by any definition, will be found in making honest work.”

About the Artist
Ethan Caflisch
Ethan’s exhibition venues and publications include the Institute of Contemporary Art (San Jose), Cheryl Hazan Gallery (New York), A.M. Gallery (Antwerp), Art Maze Magazine, and AnOther Magazine. Explore his large, geometric and minimalist paintings, figurative paintings and hand made textile works.

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Ethan Caflisch’s multimedia works fuse hand-printed photographs, textiles, and handbuilt frames into compositions that balance precision with imperfection. These pieces are also color studies, embracing the beauty in the unprecious, where test prints and experiments become finished works in their own right.
Some images function as mimicry, others as translations, but a central figure recurs—a grounding force within shifting textures and tones. By layering materials and meaning, Caflisch creates works that feel both constructed and organic, inviting the viewer to engage with the tension between process and finality, memory and material, presence and absence.
In Caflisch’s Words:
the landscape appears in all these works. but they’re also color studies with a special consideration to treat tests as final works. the beauty in the unprecious. some act as mimicry, some act as translations, but centrally there’s a consistent figure to help guide and ground the image.


EVA CHEN ON ETHAN CAFLISCH
“...WE WERE REALLY LOOKING FOR PIECES THAT SPOKE TO US AND MADE US PAUSE FOR A MOMENT TO ABSORB, APPRECIATE, AND REFLECT. CAFLISCH'S ART ABSOLUTELY HAD THAT EFFECT ON US.”