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Eric Sanders
Eric Sanders, Blue Odalisque, 2021, Oil on Wood Panel,
48” x 60” x 2”, $10,000
I have a deep passion for painting and a love of the many forms of expression that can be conveyed through its fluid, protean materiality. Each approach that I take in my work is a way for me to explore the myriad pathways that visual art can communicate ideas and emotions. It is also a means to explore my own inner life; the subjective shadows of myself that are brought to light through the act of painting.
I am an expressive artist looking for a powerful experience in my work. Whether it is the explosive forces that erupt across my large-scale abstractions or the subjective life that the portraits convey: it is the effect that these paintings have emotionally that guides my journey. I have a deep love for the history of Western European art: it nourishes me, and gives me inspiration; it is the foundation upon which I can explore the full range of my skills, imagination and vision.
The paintings in this exhibition are both abstract and figurative. I am interested in what possibilities the fusing of these two stylistic approaches can open up. The works in this exhibit was chosen specifically to show how I am building a bridge between these two different approaches to painting. The title of this show, A Lot To Unpack, conveys how I am wrestling with a lot of different imagery; there are a lot of emotions to unpack and I am corralling them all together in order to make sense of them. The abstract works in this exhibition were created during the pandemic and were a way for me to cope with the stress and anxiety of our collective peril.
-Eric Sanders