Eric Oliver

I currently work with the full range of photographic processes, both digital & chemical, as well as with paint and pastel, often alternating between media--each influences, informs, and provides some relief from the other. I consider my paintings to be physical representations of everyday visual impressions, whereas the digital images—presented as large-scale c-prints--are visual representations of everyday physical impressions.

After working digitally for nearly 2 decades, using a flatbed scanner as a large format digital camera, I returned to paint as a way of once again having my ʻhandʼ in my art.

While growing up in New York City fostered much of my fascination with the urban setting and its components, the ever-changing colors, geographies, patterns, shapes and shadows encountered during my daily life generally serve as the impetus for the work.