[ B I O G R A P H Y ]

John Erickson was born on March 12, 1953 and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1976 he received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Utah, studying under the direction of Alvin Gittins and V. Douglas Snow. In 1975 he attended The Summer Fellowship at Yale University, studying with Wolf Kahn, Louis Finkelstein and Philip Guston. He returned to the University of Utah for graduate school and received his MFA in 1981.

After graduating, he began teaching fine art at the University of Utah and has been an Assistant Professor/Lecturer there for over 30 years. He also teaches summer workshops. He has a love of nature which stems from having spent a lifetime in the outdoors hiking and exploring the backcountry wilderness.

[ S T A T E M E N T ]

Erickson employs a variety of mediums including latex, acrylic, oil and oil pastels. His works are an exploration of interior and exterior space and planes. Landscapes made by man and nature are quoted with commentary and depth. His longtime study of figure structure gives grounding to free brushwork and reflective boundaries, broken and kept.