Artist Statement
Eric’s style is representational, but he takes extreme liberties. What you see is intentionally engaging and also ambiguous in a way that mirrors the difficulty of knowing anything as absolute. Eric is quite certain the last time we lived successfully with genuine absolutes was 30,000 or so years ago, the shaman painters at Lascaux and Chauvet.
Process Statement
If one theme binds Eric’s work together. It is the passage of time, and how we do or do not experience it. In Blood Rescue, he questions how we as a species have changed since the cave drawings at Lascaux and Chauvet 35,000 years ago. In Dollhouse, Eric creates visual image moments. These are intense instants in time where we experience both the past, layered onto a present moment through the quality of memory; and also the future, layered on through the quality of imagination.
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