Erik Otto

Surface & Light

After my last show, I felt a burnout coming on and needed to switch things up and while I was reorganizing the studio, I discovered large bags of cement, sand, plaster and other building materials. I took this as small but important sign that I was on the right path when the desire had been…

09 December 2019

WAVES / NYC: recap

. With 1 year in the making, this show has been the largest project I ever committed to. Endless gratitude to everyone who stepped up and showed support — either in person or online. None of this is possible without all of you. While this project has no doubt been the most challenging endeavor for…

02 October 2019

WAVES / NYC

I am honored and pleased to invite you to my next solo exhibition in New York City. Over one year ago, I found myself overwhelmed with all that was going on around me. Lost in a sea of tasks yet plagued with inaction…struggling to mentally stay afloat. Rather than fighting the current, I learned that if I cultivated…

10 September 2019

WAVES Warm Up

Leading up to the solo exhibition of my most recent WAVES series, I decided to transform a temporary space along Canal Street into an immersive installation combining paint, light, video and sound — offering viewers a sense of what’s to come. . . The concept behind this is just as it sounds. I wanted to…

19 August 2019

A Traveling Spirit

I have been traveling to Mexico for over 15 years. What began as family vacations, took a spontaneous turn on my part to visit Mexico City. On this trip, over 7 years ago, I jumped in blind only to bump into an old friend who I met riding bikes in San Francisco who had recently…

25 June 2019

WAVES

I kept pretty busy through the winter prepping for this moment. The next collection of work is complete and ready to share with the world. It feels like I have been treading water for months battling all sorts of internal and external storms that have come my way…making sense of it the only way I…

15 May 2019

Print Release: Overflow

All last week I have been working close with talented printer, Mark Herschede of Haven Press in Brooklyn to provide yet another offering in conjunction with my recent artwork release. He’s developed some unique ways to make edition work that will pretty much feel like the real thing. Similar to my studio practice, every layer informed…

08 May 2019

Mindspace / San Francisco

Every now and then, you get a client who wants something very specific. Mindspace (based out of Tel Aviv) had plans to break into the San Francisco market with their unique style of co-working spaces reached out to me to create featured artwork based off a previously produced light painting series. Working off their color…

16 April 2019

Finishing Touches

Only one month to go until I reach a major personal milestone marking the end of the first phase of an ongoing series of work. After taking a long break from off-site commissions and dedicating long stretches of time to my studio practice, I managed to get back to the basics and reconnect with the…

16 April 2019

Print Release: Undercurrents

I recently dedicated my efforts to produce something special just in time for the holidays. It was a different approach to producing an edition where I chose to be hands on during the entire process. In an endless sea of digital prints, I still believe in the practice where the print process itself should be…

06 December 2018

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