September 2 to October 9, 2024

Images from the exhibition

"A number of years ago I was given a few black and white photographs by my grandfather, who was a bomber pilot in the Second World War. Many of the images are taken from the perspective of the belly of a low flying plane. Several of them are wonderfully abstract as it is difficult to immediately discern what one is seeing. The bird’s eye view in the photographs and my great distance from their content in both time and experience allow them a beauty. In one of the images, un-tethered geometric shapes seem to fall away toward a barren earth. There one can see what appear to be figures standing along a dirt road. This particular photograph dulled the beauty thereby changing my perspective on the images. It is the impetus for the work in the exhibition.
 
The sculptures and drawings in Look out consider the sky’s ability to be both a source of wonder as well as vulnerability. There are structured human-scale explosions depicting forces as they just begin to expand; porous geometric shelters based on historical camouflage techniques used in the field; and drawings of the sky in flux.” 

Eric’s work has been included in group shows in the Kunsthaus Hamburg and the Outdoor Sculpture Projects at Volta03 in Basel, Switzerland. He has also had solo shows at Gallery4Culture, the Hedreen Gallery at the Lee Center for the Arts, both in Seattle, and the Kolva/Sullivan Gallery in Spokane. His work was included in the group show Unnatural Presence at Platform in 2006 and he mounted a solo show at Art Agents Gallery in Hamburg, Germany in 2008 and  His last solo exhibition at Platform, Prospect Fields, was also in 2008. He received his MFA in 2005 from the University of Washington.