Eric is a Vancouver-based painter whose vibrant compositions are being recognized by numerous collectors both public and private.
Louie’s sculptural, organic abstracts allude to landscape, still life and even portraiture. His signature metallic, shimmering forms, achieved via many thin layers of luminescent glazes, are central to the virtual worlds he creates. Louie’s works possess a chameleonic ability to exist comfortably among a multitude of aesthetics, from 1920s Art Deco and Mid-Century Modern through to the late 20th Century and into the forefront of contemporary design.
Louie holds a B.F.A from the Alberta College of Art and Design, where he was awarded the prestigious Jason Lang Scholarship. His work is included in numerous private and public collections including CIBC, Encana Energy, NBC Studios, Paramount and MGM Pictures, as well as the City of Calgary.
Louie has shown his work nationally over the past decade in more than 25 exhibitions.
Artist Statement
My paintings have always had a sensibility toward the natural order of things. I’m interested in creating events that both acknowledge and deny spatial illusion simultaneously. I feel as though there never is an end to these works in their self-fulfillment, which is exciting and challenging to me. My process, in the beginning, is to make a painting in response to one of its predecessors. None of the works are planned and continually change course until they come to some resolve where I can let them go. The forms are invented during the process, some of which survive until the end, others lost in the many layers of thin glazes of paint.
The paintings have a pictorial emphasis for the most part… They tend to be mind paintings but also allude to landscape, still life and portraiture. Having explored many of these genres in the past, they still surface in my abstractions to some degree. The objects within the paintings tend to be unique shying away from pattern or repetition. Many, especially in this recent body of work, melding organic and geometric elements. I have found that this development takes the work in two directions. On one level it points towards the idea but does not define the works as autonomous art objects. On another, to perhaps talk about this type of interaction of forms, their tension and broader meaning.
