Exhibition

Salon Highlight:

Kaylie Kaitschuck

They Don’t Love You Like I Love You
October 26 - December 21, 2024

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Louis Buhl & Co. is pleased to present a new Salon Highlight with Detroit-based textile artist Kaylie Kaitschuck, titled They Don’t Love You Like I Love You, and opening October 26, 2024. Using machine embroidery to draw with yarn, Kaitschuck creates dense and fantastical compositions that drift in and out of reality, existing as archives of thought, routine and moments that may or may not have ever existed. 

In They Don’t Love You Like I Love You, the act of embroidery becomes a meditation on memory, intimacy, and the emotional landscapes that form when nostalgia intersects with present realities. The featured body of work is rooted in a specific moment: a young girl, escaping into her basement with friends, immersed in the digital worlds of Rock Band. It was in these spaces of simulated rock stardom and youthful camaraderie that Kaitschuck first encountered Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a song whose haunting chorus would leave an indelible mark on her consciousness.

The exhibition represents not only a longing for love, but also a reexamination of the way in which love transforms over time. Within the embroideries, Kaitschuck revisits the emotional terrain of her youth, where the innocence of early romantic ideals first took root. Each piece becomes a conversation between past and present, a way to reconcile the idealism of youth with the complexity of lived experience. What begins as nostalgia morphs into a deeper exploration of how love evolves—how it disappoints, fulfills, and changes us.

At the heart of the work is the lyric “They don’t love you like I love you,” a phrase that speaks not only to the ache of unreciprocated affection but also to the way we hold onto the past. There is a persistent tension in the works that references a yearning to preserve those first encounters with love and music, yet an acknowledgment that the passage of time alters our relationship with them. Foundationally, Kaitschuck uses embroidery, with its slow, methodical process, as a metaphor for emotional labor: the painstaking effort required to make sense of longing, loss, and the shifting nature of attachment.

Influenced by the psychedelia of music culture and the dreamlike quality of early digital escapism, the embroidered pieces feel suspended between worlds—one foot in the past, the other in the present. 

Kaylie Kaitschuck: They Don’t Love You Like I Love You is on view from October 26 - December 21, 2024 at Louis Buhl & Co.