There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
—Leonard Cohen
To follow the work of Eric Anderson across time is to pace the trails of an American nomad, one simultaneously at ease nearly anywhere and yet ever in search of some lost home, receding just behind the line of the next horizon.
Anderson's life has been lived in a wide variety of environments. Various Brooklyn neighborhoods, suburban northern California, Philadelphia's Italian market, rural Missouri, Northeast Los Angeles, and even (briefly) London — all have served the artist as home at one point or another.
This peripatetic life has gifted him with a love of adventure and a restless desire to seek out new ways of working. He has deployed various stylistic means and conceptual devices throughout his career, each used to convey the particular needs of the story being told.
People are creatures not of fact, as the modernist myth would have it, but of story. Anderson's work attempts to reach, however feebly, toward the numinous, seeking those stories that run back to what C.S. Lewis referred to as "the deeper magic from before the dawn of time."
Curriculum Vitae
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Exhibitions
Solo & 2-Person
2019
A Consuming Fire, with Luke Whitlatch; Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2013
Effortless As Fire; Giacobetti Paul Gallery; Brooklyn, New York
2004
Overlong; Good Girl Art Gallery; Springfield, Missouri
Overlong II; Joplin Law Convention Center; Joplin, Missouri
Selected Group
2018
Keystone Winter Group Show; Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Keystone Spring Group Show; Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2014
Drury | New York | San Francisco | Berlin; Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
2013
Summer Group Show; Giacobetti Paul Gallery; Brooklyn, New York
2012
Modest In Scale; Abecedarian Gallery; Denver, Colorado
Summer Group Show; Giacobetti Paul Gallery; Brooklyn, New York
2011
An Evening With Zefrey Throwell (collaborator); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NewYork
February Salon Show; Greenpoint Gallery; Brooklyn, New York
2010
Bring Your Own Art; X Initiative; New York, New York
Tattoo Culture 2010 Group Show; Tattoo Culture; Brooklyn, New York
2008
Tattoo Culture 2008 Group Show; Tattoo Culture; Brooklyn, New York
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Alumni Exhibition; Drury University; Springfield, Missouri
Photoworks, Prints and Artists’ Books; Abecedarian Gallery; Denver, Colorado
2007
Tattoo Culture 2007 Group Show; Tattoo Culture; Brooklyn, New York
MFA Thesis Show; School of Visual Arts Westside Gallery; New York, New York
Bird Beak Group Show; Headquarters Studio; New York, New York
Monmouth County Arts Council Juried Show; Monmouth Co. Museum of Art; Lincroft, New Jersey
Education
2007
MFA — School of Visual Arts, New York, New York
2002
BA — Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
Press
The 10 Best Art Pranks In History, The Huffington Post, April 01, 2012
John Doyle & Barry Paddock, Naked New Yorkers Arrested for Stripping Down on Wall St…
New York Daily News, August 01, 2011
Jerry Saltz, How a Joyride in Gavin Brown’s Volvo Became Art, New York Magazine, March 19, 2011
Benjamin Sutton, Is It Art? Gallery-Goers Mistake Gavin Brown’s Car for Participatory Performance, The L Magazine, March 18, 2011