Erick Swenson
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Erick Swenson is an American
artist and sculptor living and working in Dallas, Texas. He earned a B.F.A. in Studio Art, Painting and Drawing, from the School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas, in 1999.
Swenson is represented by the James Cohan Gallery http://www.jamescohan.com in New York. He has shown internationally at galleries and museums such as the Hammer Museum
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/ in Los Angeles, the Villa Stuck http://www.villastuck.de// in Munich, and was included in the 2004 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art
http://www.whitney.org in New York.
Known for his polyurethane resin sculptures of animals often displayed in elaborate dioramas, Swenson's scenes often involve fabricated animals like deer, sheep, and apes captured frozen in allegorical moments. Inspired by museum exhibits and model making, Swenson's tableaux conjure the Romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich
and the imagery of wintry Bavarian fairy tales.
Public Collections
Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, TX
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
The Saatchi Collection, London
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
United States
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artist and sculptor living and working in Dallas, Texas. He earned a B.F.A. in Studio Art, Painting and Drawing, from the School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas, in 1999.
Swenson is represented by the James Cohan Gallery http://www.jamescohan.com in New York. He has shown internationally at galleries and museums such as the Hammer Museum
Hammer Museum
The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, or the Hammer Museum as it is more commonly known, is an art museum in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California...
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/ in Los Angeles, the Villa Stuck http://www.villastuck.de// in Munich, and was included in the 2004 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
http://www.whitney.org in New York.
Known for his polyurethane resin sculptures of animals often displayed in elaborate dioramas, Swenson's scenes often involve fabricated animals like deer, sheep, and apes captured frozen in allegorical moments. Inspired by museum exhibits and model making, Swenson's tableaux conjure the Romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning...
and the imagery of wintry Bavarian fairy tales.
Public Collections
Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, TX
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
The Saatchi Collection, London
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Awards
- 1999 The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
- 2004 The Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Award, The Joan Mitchell Foundation