MELANIE’S OFFICE
ROBERT ERICKSON
November 11 - December 17, 2021
Robert Erickson (b.1972, Newark, Delaware)
Exhibited throughout the United States and abroad over the last 20 years. Recent group exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art - Tucson, 57w57Arts, New York, NY, Dropped Frames - Curated by JPW3, Elk Gallery, New York, NY. Accident Blackspot- Curated by Jim Lee, Freight&Volume, New York, NY. Accident Blackspot, Markus Winter Gallery, Berlin, Germany, The Lurking Hole Gallery, Nottingham, UK. Received a BFA University of Delaware, 1997. Robert currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
“The materials I work with are used in my day job as a screen printer. All of which has been parted out and worked on completely out of purpose from their initial intended use to explore reductive ideas in painting. An exercise in working with what is on hand immediately around me to see the potential of how this process oriented material can be re-purposed.
There is a conflict regarding how much information, or if any, should preface this work despite the involved process of making it. This work is the exchange I have with color, form, and materials mostly initiated by informal observations often scattered about in the workplace, studio, and occasionally outside in the world. I feel that the phenomena of an un-distilled direct experience is on the endangered list in today's virtual information glut. The random momentary confrontation that initiates a pause to observe is so necessary and important in our day to day.” RE
PROJECT SPACE
ROBERT ERICKSON | Paintings
September 6 - October 12, 2018