Eric Cruikshank – Moments of Absence
Preview: Friday 15 October, 7 – 9pm
Open: Saturday 16 October – Sunday 24 October, 12 – 5pm
Closed: Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 October
Sketchbook Photograph: Window from farm building, initial starting point for drawings.
Moments of Absence will be Eric’s first exhibition since being Artist in Residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute, with his monochromatic paper pieces forming the principal focus of the show.
Untitled, Compressed Charcoal and Pencil on Vellum and Paper, 76.5cm x 51cm, 2010 (three parts)
Continuing from sequences of works completed in America, multiple layers of delicate translucent paper are pinned to the gallery wall, with the physical movement of the viewer having a physical bearing on the drawings. As the papers shift independently, the forms sketched out on each sheet blur and renegotiate themselves with each pass of the spectator.
These works elicit something abstract and non-specific, imprinted by memory and experience. Subject matter is then an integral element, but for the works themselves, the viewing experience becomes the main area of interest.
Eric Cruikshank