Eric C. Neuschwanger

Lives and works in Chicago, IL

2002 BFA, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Artist Statement:

The dialog expressed in these pieces consists of line, shape, and a child like joy of color. The imagery pulls from popular symbols, mass media, vernacular photography, memory and automatic drawing.

The shaped surface allows me to explore form in a way that can't be addressed in a standard rectangle or square. The pieces occupy a space between art object and an illusionist painting. The contours can be just as rigid as they are biomorphic.

In my current work, I have found I am no longer under any of the rules I had previously imposed regarding my process. I like the ambiguous nature of the shapes, where the viewer questions if the shape was created independently of the paint, or if the painting is actually a part of a larger work that it was then removed from.

Exhibitions:

• 2008
  • Uncommon Ground – Chicago, IL
  • Chicago Art Open – Chicago, IL
  • Rockford Art Museum – Rockford, IL “Midwestern 2008”
  • Around the Coyote – Chicago, IL “Spring Festival – Looptopia”
  • Iowa State Bank Gallery-on-the-Square ­– Fairfield, IA
  • Fairfield Arts and Convention Center – Fairfield, IA “Abstract Painting”
• 2007

  • 5th Annual Andersonville Arts Weekend – Chicago, IL