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About My Ar​t

Usually I do portraits landscapes and narrative art.

Lately I seem to be going through an extended Clown Period. 

Some clowns know they're clowns and revel in it. Others completely believe their clown selves are to be worshipped by all around them.

 

I sincerely hope the clowns leave my art studio soon!

We live on the most beautiful planet surrounded by love on so many levels.

Let's all free ourselves from other people's Be Like Me agendas and live our own lives fully in compassion, grateful for all the diversity and blessings we receive every day.

About Me

My work often uses humor to ease the intensity of implied content. Sometimes even the framing is an intentional part of the piece.

Thanks for visiting. If you see something that interests you, please feel free to contact me at eric@ericwallenart.com 

My Resume:

Education:

Frederich Leuchs, Stockbridge MA personal tutorials making flat glass art 1967

Boston University School of Fine Applied Arts: sculpture/painting majors.

Studied under James Weeks, Alba Corrado, Sydney Hurwitz, Marianna Pineda

Boston Architectural Center: architecture

Mass College of Art:  glass art, silver smithing, photography

The Stained Glass School of North America:

flat glass design and construction, vitreous glass painting Bill Cummings, Albinas Elskus, North Adams 1980

Santa Rosa Junior College:  studio painting with Michael Loffredo

Exhibits:

2024

Future Labs Gallery, North Adams, "Bodies of Work" 5 person show.

Gallery 51, North Adams, MA Cultural Arts Council group exhibit 

The Bienale Project, Venice, Italy, Curated group show, Honorable Mention.

Future Labs Gallery, North Adams MA "Glow Show" group member show.

2023

Future Labs Gallery North Adams MA "Iapetis" 4 person show

Future Labs  Nrth Adams MA "Through the Gate" Collective membership group show

2022

Christos, North Adams MA, two man show

Atlantic Works, Boston MA, group show

Future Lab(S) Gallery, North Adams MA, multiple group shows

 

2020

"Favorite Things" Sebastopol Center For The Arts, digital gallery group show. (physical gallery closed due to Covid19)

"Pandemic Transformation" Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Juried national digital exhibit pertaining to Covid19.

"Not Normal in the Age of Trump", second edition, curated by Karen Gutfreund, published July 2020, available on Amazon. page 

"Art in the Time of Covid" Santa Rosa Arts Center, online group show.

Guest Artist, The Graton Gallery, Graton CA  Fall exhibit. 

"More of the Obvious Less". (An anti-Trump musical diatrabe.) My work included in the Netherland's rock band The Irrational Library music video released October 2020.   

Member show, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, December 2020 online (and on site, if current covid19 rules allow.)

2019

"Healing the Environment" Santa Rosa Arts Center SR, CA group show

"Ship of Fools" Cooper Lanza Gallery Bellingham, WA juried group show

"Roshambo" Graton Gallery Graton, CA juried group show

"Anything Goes" Graton Gallery Graton, CA juried group show

"Art For Life" Sebastopol CA, juried group show with benefit auction

"Members Show", Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol CA

2018

"Defining The Art of Change in the Age of Trump"

The Center for Contemporary Political Art  Washington DC, juried show

"HERE, Part 1"  Berkeley Art Center  Berkeley, CA juried group show

"Pride Group Show" Cloud Gallery  Seattle, WA  juried group show

"Anything Goes" Graton Gallery  Graton, CA juried group show

"Art For Life" Sebastopol, CA  juried group show with benefit auction

"Small Works" Santa Rosa Arts Center  Santa Rosa, CA group show

2017

Chroma Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA  2 juried group shows

2016

Chroma Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA juried group show

Petaluma Center for the Arts, Petaluma, CA juried group show

2015

"Small Works" juried group show  Chroma Gallery, Santa Rosa CA

Guerneville CA Public Library, juried group show

Sebastopol Center for the Arts, group member show

 

2014

Petaluma Arts Council, juried group Member Show

"Emerging Artists" Tom of Finland Foundation, juried group show online, Los Angeles, CA

2012

Guerneville, CA Public Library juried group show

2011

Dandelion Botanicals, Seattle WA one man show

“HIV 30” Public Art Wall on Broadway, Capitol Hill, Seattle WA,

(juried group installation 15 nationally chosen artists that became a national traveling show  commemorating 30 years fighting HIV)

Sponsored by Gay City Org of Seattle WA.

2010

8th Seattle Erotic Arts Festival  The Seattle Center, Seattle, WA

Juried group exhibit of US and international artists.

 

1999

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA group show and benefit auction

1998

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA group show and benefit auction

1997

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA group show and benefit auction

1996

“Small Works” The Sonoma Museum of Modern Art (juried show) Santa Rosa CA

award: Two dimensional mixed media.

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA group show and benefit auction
 

1995

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA group juried show and benefit auction

1994

Bay Area Architectural Glass,  juried AIA show

Glass Art Society, Richmond CA

"Glass Visions" group show Cultural Arts Council  Santa Rosa CA

"Man to Man" juried show Quicksilver Mine Gallery  Guerneville CA

Juried group exhbit  Sonoma Arts Guild  Sonoma CA

"Male Artists" selected group show  Gallery One  Petaluma CA

1993

Belvedere Winery, Healdsburg CA one man glass exhibit of flat glass, autonomous panels.

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA group show and benefit auction

"Windows for Life" Participating artist, International design collaborative consisting of a juried group of 12 artists from 6 countries. Napa CA

Famed German glass artist Johannes Schrieter was lead coordinating artist for a proposed 300 sq. ft. installation for the front facade of the Life Center in San Francisco.

1992

Group juried show,  Gallery Q  Santa Rosa CA

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA group show and benefit auction

"Figuratively Speaking" group show Quercia Gallery, Duncans Mills CA

1991

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA group show and benefit auction

1990

"The Four" group show Gallery Rowe, SF CA

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA group show and benefit auction

1989

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA group show and benefit auction

1988

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA group show and benefit auction

 

1987

“Emerging Artists, Bay Currents: Clay and Glass” San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, Fort Mason

"Art For Life" Santa Rosa CA  group show and benefit auction

1986

“Glass at the Library” SF CA group show

1985

The 1985 Stained Glass Competition, First Unitarian Church SF CA

Award: Best Use of Opalescent Glass Award

1985 San Francisco Arts Festival, Civic Center and also exhibiting at the Park Branch Library

(Juried show by the San Francisco Art Institute)

 

1984

The 1984 Stained Glass Art Competition The Stained Glass Gallery, SF CA

Award: Honorable Mention, Professional Category

“Fresh Glass 84” First Unitarian Church, SF CA

(San Francisco Art Glass Guild)

1983

“Glass Art Show 83” Gallery Sanchez SF CA  juried group glass exhibit

The Stained Glass Gallery SF CA

1982

 “Glass Art '82” Castro Marketplace SF CA

(San Francisco Art Glass Guild)

The 1982 San Francisco Glass Art Competition The Stained Glass Gallery SF CA

“Glass Art Show 82”, Gallery Sanchez SF CA  juried group glass art exhibit

 

1981

“Glass Art '81” Castro Marketplace SF CA

(group show, San Francisco Art Glass Guild)

The 1981 San Francisco Glass Art Competition The Stained Glass Gallery SF CA

1979

“Facets” group show, Gallery 67, Newbury St, Boston MA

 

Represented Galleries:

The Stained Glass Garden, Berkeley CA 1995-97

Limn Gallery Pacific, San Francisco CA 1995

Quicksilver Mine Company, Guerneville and Sebastopol CA 1993-1999

Glass Images, Guerneville CA 1993-2001

Viewpoints, Pt Reyes Station CA 1993

The Stained Glass Shop, San Francisco CA 1981-84

Solo Exhibits:

Dandelion Botanicals, Seattle WA 2011

Domaine Chandon, Napa CA 1993-4

Belvedere Winery, Healdsburg CA 1993

Hoopla:

Mentioned on KQED "Art Notes" by John Rozak. A look at contemporary glass art in SF Bay Area

Vice President San Francisco Art Glass Guild

(SFAGG)1982-85

Editor of INFLUX, SFAGG quarterly for 3 years

Current Associations:

Member, Santa Rosa Arts Center

Member, Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Formerly represented by Bellas Artes International.

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