Eric Lindveit
Eric Lindveit
March 6 - May 19, 2014
Open hours: Monday - Friday, 8 am - 7 pm
Reception for the Artist:
Thursday, March 13, 6 - 8 pm
Lobby Gallery
1133 Avenue of the Americas
(between 43rd and 44th)
"Like odd dream-like artifacts, his pieces create a highly accurate reproduction that remains entirely implausible." - Robert Egert
These works, built of paint, paper, burlap, pencil, and sawdust, examine the personification of surface via the petri dish of sylva* and evidence a curiosity about what is real. They are informed by observations of New York City street trees which are often damaged and diseased, and pre 20th century hand-colored medical and natural history books, but they do not represent scientific investigations. Rather, through scale change and invention, these works are greatly exaggerated composite portraits that explore surface, identity, entropy, and the skin of paint. They belong to the built environment.
The smaller works, from the series "Skin Conditions" and "Sylvan Natural History of New York," respectively, are a part of a growing vocabulary that evoke displays of early anatomical wax models. These works are as much dimensional drawing as they are painting or sculpture; they’re inspired by an exhaustive series of hand colored books titled the “Natural History of New York,” a thirty volume, fifty-two year attempt to depict all things flora and
fauna in the state of New York. The larger works, human scaled and titled “Parade Shields,” are built on articulated box springs, singles and doubles, and relate to the wall like blown up sylvan° potato chips. The title refers to ceremonial objects from the 15th and 16th centuries, like Andrea del Castagno’s shield “David with the Head of Goliath,” that were carried in pageants, civic processions, and spectacles.
- Eric Lindveit
Eric Lindveit was born in Washington DC. He studied at Hampshire College and Kansas City Art Institute and currently lives and works in NYC. He was a recipient of a 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting.
March 6 - May 19, 2014
Open hours: Monday - Friday, 8 am - 7 pm
Reception for the Artist:
Thursday, March 13, 6 - 8 pm
Lobby Gallery
1133 Avenue of the Americas
(between 43rd and 44th)
"Like odd dream-like artifacts, his pieces create a highly accurate reproduction that remains entirely implausible." - Robert Egert
These works, built of paint, paper, burlap, pencil, and sawdust, examine the personification of surface via the petri dish of sylva* and evidence a curiosity about what is real. They are informed by observations of New York City street trees which are often damaged and diseased, and pre 20th century hand-colored medical and natural history books, but they do not represent scientific investigations. Rather, through scale change and invention, these works are greatly exaggerated composite portraits that explore surface, identity, entropy, and the skin of paint. They belong to the built environment.
The smaller works, from the series "Skin Conditions" and "Sylvan Natural History of New York," respectively, are a part of a growing vocabulary that evoke displays of early anatomical wax models. These works are as much dimensional drawing as they are painting or sculpture; they’re inspired by an exhaustive series of hand colored books titled the “Natural History of New York,” a thirty volume, fifty-two year attempt to depict all things flora and
fauna in the state of New York. The larger works, human scaled and titled “Parade Shields,” are built on articulated box springs, singles and doubles, and relate to the wall like blown up sylvan° potato chips. The title refers to ceremonial objects from the 15th and 16th centuries, like Andrea del Castagno’s shield “David with the Head of Goliath,” that were carried in pageants, civic processions, and spectacles.
- Eric Lindveit
Eric Lindveit was born in Washington DC. He studied at Hampshire College and Kansas City Art Institute and currently lives and works in NYC. He was a recipient of a 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting.
*sylva: trees growing in a particular region.
°sylvan: associated with woods, being made of tree materials, comprising a forest.
