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...
by Erik | Sep 3, 2023 | Art making
When I visited the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., last June, I took some snapshots of a guard in the exhibit “The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions.” I told her about my project “Subject: Guard,” painting museum guards. “Why don’t...
by Erik | Aug 15, 2023 | Art making
Guards in museums and art galleries fascinate me. They are there guarding the art on display to ensure we don’t look with our fingers, or touch it with our breath. They are the one fixture in the room that moves, and moving in rotation with their colleagues, from...
