Amy Erickson creates highly prismatic drawings, paintings, and collages from direct observation and imagination. Her most recent body of work is a series of medium to large scale acrylic figure paintings that thread together themes of intimacy, reflection, and change. Her integration of perceptual painting and compositional invention attempt to dislodge assumptions about what we see and how we experience these themes.
Through her use of lush color and textural mark-making, her painted figures and objects appear both visceral and sublime. Erickson combines influences from the lineage of perceptual painters—including Morandi, Edwin Dickinson, Euan Uglow – and constructs visual narratives with abstract masses of color and value, revealing an ineffable, emotive quality of a place, person, or thing.
