Erik-Hanson I make visual records of sensory experiences: 2018

Thursday, September 6, 2018

I discover acrylic paint

I spent Autumn experimenting in the studio with new painting techniques informed by screenprinting. These all started out with black liquid acrylic on canvas, I really liked the spontaneity I had achieved by dashing of some designs to be screen printed so I tried combining that technique with oil painting and now I'm really pleased with the results......

Heaven 14 x 11 inches.....8-4-18

Road To Nowhere 16 x12 8-3-18

Who is it? 12 x 9 inches 8-3-18

Over There 14 x 11 inches 8-23-18

Park Ranger Bluto....8-7-18 , 16x12

Summertime Bluto.....14x11 8-18-18

Happy Day 14x11 august 4 2018.

Fascinstion, 12x9, O/C 8-8-18

People like Bluto 16x12 8-18-18

The Artist...14x11 8-5-18

Hungry 24 x 12 8-6-18

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

It dawned on me pretty Early on...

That there's an element of self portraiture here....

My Mom Loves Bluto....!

I'm lucky to have such a talented Mom, she's 93 and she painted those trays behind us.....Last week I visited her in Minnesota and gave her a tee shirt.... Love you Mom.

one last screenprint design

here are some of the prints...

Paintings on Paper Become Screenprints

A friend, fred Martinez, asked me to join him at the Newark Screenprinting workshop.....so I dashed these off and the next day some of them became screenprints ......that was fun

The one year Mark

here's me in my studio with a years worth of paintings, roughly January 2018

Monday, August 13, 2018

Studio Shots 3-1

I just passed the 300 Mark and thats great because Ive got a show coming up in March 2019 at marlborough contemporary in Chelsea NYC!

Sunday, March 11, 2018

I Can't Explain....

Oil on Canvas 40 x 60 inches 3-5-18

This is my biggest painting to date........I was listening to a Who song that David Bowie covered on Pinups.....

Boy's Keep Swinging

Oil on Canvas 3 x 4 Feet 2-23-18

Little did I know of the battle brewing for me.....

Wild Is The Wind

Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 inches Feb 21 2018

Finished on Nina Simone's birthday, My Friend Michael Alago was her manager for a time, thank god she had someone like him to believe in her during those trying times.....

Bohemian Rhapsody

Oil on Canvas 3 x 4 Feet 2-14-18

The perfect thing to on Valentine's Day, paint 2 guys fighting. This still intrigued me as it was from a 1933 cartoon and that semi-rural background looks like 1933 to me, when my parents were 8 years old and all of the fighting that they did.....

The Show Must Go On

30 x 40 inches oil on Canvas February 13 2018

I was thinking of the internal struggle Freddie Mercury must have been feeling when he made the video for this song. Trying to keep his illness hidden, the guilt and shame so many of my peers were feeling,,,,, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Show_Must_Go_On_(Queen_song)

I want To Break Free

Oil on Canvas 3 x 4 Feet, February 11 2018

I felt these could get bigger, so did Walter Robinson, AA Bronson and others and this is my first in a larger scale, this was very exciting to paint

Keep Yourself Alive

Oil on Canvas 18 x 24 inches February 8 2018

I spent most of February 2018 listening to Queen and trying to paint "Fightclouds", That's what cartoon people call these complex combinations of motion and body fragments. They're very self-referential.....Id versus Ego, straight versus gay......etc and they are at the core of the relationship between Bluto and Popeye. They are often fighting, ostensibly over Olive Oyl but she usually disappears as soon as the fighting begins and it goes on and on getting more ridiculous and entertaining....... it's just a way for these 2 guys to be together.