Eric Stotik
For the month of August, Russo Lee Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Eric Stotik. With meticulous execution, Stotik continues to create paintings with intense visual impact. This body of work is composed of acrylic on paper, wood panel, and found metals. Bordering on the dark and mysterious, each piece evokes pathos, often examining where nature, man, and culture collide.
Eric Stotik grew up between Papua, New Guinea and Melbourne, Australia. As an adult, he came to Portland to study art at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where he graduated in 1985. He won the prestigious Betty Bowen Memorial Award in 1994 and was Artist in Residence at the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for the Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum in 1997. He was named the Regional Arts & Culture Council’s 2011 Fellow in Visual Arts. He has shown his work extensively throughout the Northwest, and his work is included in the collections of the Hallie Ford Museum at Willamette University, Salem; the Portland Art Museum; the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah; Idaho State University; the New York Public Library; and Yale University.