Artist Statement.
Eric Erekson
Artist Statement
Imagine the earliest human hands making marks and then see these many hands throughout
time transforming marks and strokes into images, leaving our oldest inscribed history. My
paintings are a dialogue between longstanding practices and new technological ways of leaving
marks and strokes, a bridge linking past to present.
Appropriating and combining content from the Internet I create permutations that deviate from
the equalized world of data and are given new life, depth and meaning. This carries out a
dialogue between the immediate world of images delivered online and the methodical decisions
made by hand, showing a visual record of human to machine and machine to human
communication. I like to make sure that the history of this dialogue is not lost but a tangible
history of actions.
Innovation is not a replacement for what I do. Like all artists within my lineage of art making,
technology offers new tools to compliment and complete a concept or expression. Using
advancement as a form of liberation and opportunity for further exploration. It also adds to the
content by expressing the condition of current world practices and the new filters we view the
world through. Formal understanding of materials and their uses are important to the artists
delivery, and technology is a component of the Formal Elements in contemporary as well as
historical art. The search for the new is as old as humanity, each innovation reinvents art
practices by comparison renewing them with every step forward.
Through many trials I have reached a a pathway within my work that is mailable to the concepts
that interest me. Many years of creativity culminating at this current body of work and the work
that will come after.
The conceptual aspects of my work orbit around the idea that we as humans have a limited
capacity to understand life through the biased filters of human perceptions. In turn what we see
as identity of self and others is restricted by everything we learn. Much of this learned
information carrying the baggage of archaic practices and thought. My paintings use a number
of inspirational concepts including; the contemporary figure, appropriated imagery, social and
political components, life experience as well as elements emphasizing my own narrowed vision
of the world by the structures that have shaped and narrow the human scope continually. Many
of these illustrating the structures that impact of how we make choices, and what we see as
freedom.
My key purpose is; I paint what I want, however I want, embedding my work with a love and
passion for my chosen practices.
Artist Statement
Imagine the earliest human hands making marks and then see these many hands throughout
time transforming marks and strokes into images, leaving our oldest inscribed history. My
paintings are a dialogue between longstanding practices and new technological ways of leaving
marks and strokes, a bridge linking past to present.
Appropriating and combining content from the Internet I create permutations that deviate from
the equalized world of data and are given new life, depth and meaning. This carries out a
dialogue between the immediate world of images delivered online and the methodical decisions
made by hand, showing a visual record of human to machine and machine to human
communication. I like to make sure that the history of this dialogue is not lost but a tangible
history of actions.
Innovation is not a replacement for what I do. Like all artists within my lineage of art making,
technology offers new tools to compliment and complete a concept or expression. Using
advancement as a form of liberation and opportunity for further exploration. It also adds to the
content by expressing the condition of current world practices and the new filters we view the
world through. Formal understanding of materials and their uses are important to the artists
delivery, and technology is a component of the Formal Elements in contemporary as well as
historical art. The search for the new is as old as humanity, each innovation reinvents art
practices by comparison renewing them with every step forward.
Through many trials I have reached a a pathway within my work that is mailable to the concepts
that interest me. Many years of creativity culminating at this current body of work and the work
that will come after.
The conceptual aspects of my work orbit around the idea that we as humans have a limited
capacity to understand life through the biased filters of human perceptions. In turn what we see
as identity of self and others is restricted by everything we learn. Much of this learned
information carrying the baggage of archaic practices and thought. My paintings use a number
of inspirational concepts including; the contemporary figure, appropriated imagery, social and
political components, life experience as well as elements emphasizing my own narrowed vision
of the world by the structures that have shaped and narrow the human scope continually. Many
of these illustrating the structures that impact of how we make choices, and what we see as
freedom.
My key purpose is; I paint what I want, however I want, embedding my work with a love and
passion for my chosen practices.