MOUNT VERNON – Celebration of Diversity, an exhibition of paintings by artist Steven Erickson, will be exhibited at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery at Cornell College, Jan. 10–Feb. 7.
An artist’s reception and gallery talk will be held Sunday, Jan. 10, from 2-4 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday 2 to 4 p.m.
Admission is free and open to the public.
“I have what I once heard termed a lateral obsession,” said Erickson of his paintings. “Whereas most artists focus on reaching the highest level with a single theme, idea, or style, I’m absorbed in achieving a breadth of styles.”
In this exhibition Erickson works with a plethora of styles, techniques, sizes and points of view. Ranging from the photo-realistic to the utterly non-objective, and many points between, the work is a celebration of possibilities within the media of oil paint. His wife and child are his primary subjects.
Erickson received his MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in 1993. He is an exhibition designer at the University of Iowa Museum of Art and lives in Iowa City with his wife and child. He has exhibited at Forum Gallery, Minneapolis; CSPS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Carolyn Ruff Gallery, Minneapolis; Hudson River Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa; and Icon Gallery, Fairfield. Iowa. Erickson’s work is included in the public collections of Mercy Hospital, Iowa City; University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and 1st Bank, Minneapolis.
This exhibition is funded through the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation. For more information contact Sue Coleman at scoleman@cornellcollege.edu or (319) 895-4491.