by Erik | Jan 16, 2025 | Art making
Acrylic, spray paint, and oil on canvas 18” x 24” Pönksafn Íslands or the Icelandic Punk Museum is the tiniest museum I have ever visited, and the one with the loudest welcome. A punk tune filled the air space over the stairs that lead you down to what used to be...
by Erik | Nov 15, 2024 | Art making
These two paintings were created by the guests that came to the Opið Hús, a monthly event at the NES Artist Residency for the artists to share what they worked on. I had created two interactive components to illustrate my process—children’s museum style—in creating...
by Erik | Oct 27, 2024 | Art making
This past summer, I traveled to northern Iceland to immerse myself into art-making at the NES Artist Residency for a month. Filled with anticipation I had resolved to let myself be guided by the environment, its landscapes, people, flora and fauna. After exploring...
by Erik | Feb 5, 2024 | Art making
Art Disarms Look at this guard looking at art. Working at a museum, one knows that one is in service of the visitor. The care you deliver inspires and facilitates the visitors’ experience. For the visitor to be served best, everyone who enters the museum should feel...
by Erik | Nov 25, 2023 | Art making, Language Play
By way of experimentation I applied way too much gesso to this canvas with the idea to let it dry facing down. Predictably, it yielded a surface that isn’t smooth, the antithesis of the typical painter’s preferred starting point. Once dried, and me seeing the...
