ERIC EHRNSCHWENDER
selected works


About (briefly)

Eric Ehrnschwender (b. 1987 SW Ohio), fourth of five, he/him, living and working in the Hudson Valley, near Kingston.

MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, BA from Vanderbilt University, and specialist training from the European Ceramic Work Center (EKWC) in the Netherlands.

He has shown across the United States, in Iceland, and the Netherlands.

(more)

Eric Ehrnschwender’s work is suspended between the blunt logic of the mechanical and the slippery radiation of the interpersonal. 

See: quantum superposition. Rather than being limited to distinct opposed positions, the possibility for conundrum is limited only by the number of nodes within the system.

Starting in a place of introspection and observation, coping mechanisms are mined to establish units of meaning via drawing and diagrams. These units are translated into volumes, and recombined spatially in response to existing architecture. These associative lattices of affective meaning collapse into a configuration upon viewing; the web is forced into specific sense when engaged with one’s particular experience.

A pillar is pen, a wheel is a dinner plate, a leg is a branch, a hand is a magnet. The drum of a washing machine is a cannon is a fire pit is a strainer is an exclusion of those largest things is a commitment to the small; a window is a record of direction is a prediction of the future is the admission of its existence; a bowl is a cantaloupe is unnamed desire is heartbreaking regret.

The field is guided; the feeling gleaned is not.

.

see top right

CV

Education

  1. 2016
  2. Master of Fine Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  3. 2010
  4. Bachelor of Arts, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Selected Exhibitions

  1. 2019
  2. UP NEXT
    Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, New York
    Curated by Arlene Shechet
  3. The House
    Matthewis Persen House, Kingston, New York
    Curated by Jess Gaddis
  4. 2018
  5. The Bump Show
    The Shirt Factory, Kingston, New York
  6. (C)arbon
    The Met Breuer, New York, New York
    Collaboration with Gallim Dance Company
  7. 2017
  8. Selections
    Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstock, New York
    & the Byrdecliffe Guild, Woodstock, New York
  9. Harper’s Books
    Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, California
  10. 2016
  11. Experiencing Perspectives
    Mercedes Benz Financial Offices, Farmington Hills, Michigan
  12. Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art
    Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
  13. 2015
  14. First Off
    Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
  15. Testing Ground
    EKWC, Oisterwijk, Netherlands
  16. Play with me
    Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
  17. 2014
  18. The Early Years
    Semantics Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
    Joint show with curator John Knight
  19. Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet 30th Anniversary Exhibition
    Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
  20. 2013
  21. Secret Artworks
    The Center in the Mercantile Building, Cincinnati, Ohio
  22. Artspace Invitational
    Hamilton Mercantile Lofts, Hamilton, Ohio
  23. Dig
    Anne Ruder Bever West Gallery, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, Ohio
    One Person Show
  24. 2012
  25. By Self and Others
    Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
    One Person Show
  26. 2011
  27. Shiny Fast Fast
    Hafnarstræti 16, Reykjavik, Iceland
  28. Jimmy and Katie
    Hafnarstræti 16, Reykjavik, Iceland
  29. Summeringshit
    Korpúlfsstaðir, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Two Person show with Ella Bertilsson
  30. Occasional Gale
    Hafnarstræti 16, Reykjavik, Iceland

Awards

  1. 2010
  2. Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award in Studio Art
    Vanderbilt University

Residencies

  1. 2015
  2. European Ceramic Work center (EKWC)
    Oisterwijk, Netherlands
  3. 2011
  4. Samband íslenskra myndlistarmanna (SÍM)
    Reykjavik, Iceland

Collections

  1. University of Iowa Print Society
  2. Brooklyn Art Library