Feb 15, 2025 - Mar 2, 2025
Eric Gerdau
Seaquins
2024
Oil on canvas
40 x 40 in.
Courtesy of the artist
About Artwork: Eric Gerdau's recent oil paintings celebrate our natural, exterior world in order to illuminate our interior, emotional states. Inspired by the atmosphere of the Southern California coastline, painterly paradoxes illustrate serenity and tranquility despite impending change. In his recent series of oil paintings, he celebrates our natural, exterior world in order to illuminate interior, emotional states. Although at first glance a vista inspired by the Southern California coastline, Seaquins reveals painterly paradoxes which evoke serenity and tranquility despite impending change. About Artist: Eric Gerdau earned a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and was awarded the European Honors Program, allowing him to spend a year studying in Rome, Italy. His academic journey was further distinguished by receiving the Guggenheim Award for Painting. Gerdau began his artistic career in New York City, creating and exhibiting multidisciplinary works influenced by his time living and working in Europe and Asia. While in Lisbon, Portugal, he collaborated with a dance company, expanding his practice to include performance and installation art, notably designing an installation for the entrance of Centro Cultural de Belém. Now based in Southern California, Gerdau operates a studio gallery in Laguna Beach, where he draws inspiration from the ocean and creates works that blend painting, mixed media, and drawing. His art is showcased in galleries and museums and is part of private collections and commissions worldwide.
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