MELANIE’S OFFICE

ROBERT ERICKSON

November 11 - December 17, 2021

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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 

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In the gallery’s newly renovated Project Space, Robert Erickson will present a selection of works from his sublime painting series that incorporates ink suspended in polyester stretched over frames of reclaimed wood. This work was developed out of an exercise which evolved by way of extracting and re-purposing various materials used in Erickson’s day job as a screen printer. The artist has found that staring at these shop materials in concert with the perpetual movements of the machines results in a trance-like state. Erickson states that this deepened sense of scrutiny has permitted an access point to exploring painting as both process and object. The resulting works are ethereal and contemplative, suffused with an almost hypnotic radiance.

Robert Erickson was born in 1972 in Newark, Delaware. He has exhibited throughout the United States over the last 20 years. Recent group exhibitions include: Museum of Contemporary Art – Tucson, Arizona; 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. Robert received a BFA from the University of Delaware in 1997 and he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.