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'No512' (2006) £8,695.00
36" x 50"
| VAT/ex VAT | GBP | Euro | USD |
|---|---|---|---|
| ex VAT | £7,400.00(ex.vat) | €8,880.00(ex.vat) | $11,100.00(ex.vat) |
| VAT | £8,695.00 | €10,434.00 | $13,042.50 |
(* US Dollar and Euro prices are approximations only)
'No512' (2006)
[hover mouse over image to zoom in]Watercolour, beeswax and silk on panel
Signed by the artist
six foot person & work to scale
Eric Blum
Eric Blum was born in Fresno, California and lives in New York City.
His early first impressions go back to the postnatal hospital room where his mother held him up to the window for his waving relatives in the street below. This was soon followed by early infancy in an oxygen tent. When he was two, he saw underwater fires at an amusement park. It is likely that the images he has made as an adult are, in part, an attempt to interpret the atmosphere of these scenes.
He is interested in portraying forms as they appear before closer inspection. The potency of so delicate a relationship as the irretrievable glimpse is what compels him to paint what he cannot photograph. That which is seen from the corner of an eye can lead to uncertain and oddly poetic perceptions…and a desire to grasp at that which cannot be possessed. For his sense, the quality of this desire, like the oxygen tent and the underwater fire, is implosive; a simmering just beneath the surface. This might explain his inclination to infuse imagery within the distorting lens of transparent materials, such as beeswax or resin to produce something tactile and illusory. The approach is largely intuitive, with a preference for semi-abstract, ambiguous forms capable of arousing multiple interpretations. Everything always turns out to be something else.
Eric Blum has exhibited widely in the states, Canada, Paris and Spain. He attended Central St Martins, London and University of California, Los Angeles. He was awarded grants from New York Foundation for the Arts in 2008 and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1998 and 2001.
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