Steven Erickson Exhibit

Erickson is a longtime Iowa artist and exhibition designer with the University of Iowa Museum of Art. The show titled Steven Erickson: Painter includes work recently shown at the Figge Museum plus new pieces. It runs through September 23. “The most interesting artworks in history to me are often the ones you can never quite figure out,” says Erickson. “The person who made them seems irrelevant and often the subject is uncertain. These works have the ability to evoke anything or everything but are never surely about one thing. Rather than conveying specific messages or meanings,they encourage a state of deep looking and contemplation. They draw you into a deeper,more universal reality. The effect, at its best, is to wash your eyes of the assumptions you have about the world and leave you looking at things a little differently. The works in this show are my attempt to add to that tradition.”ICON Director, Bill Teeple, comments, “Steve creates some of the most sensitively constructed non-objective art being made in the region. His work is matter of fact — no bells and whistles. He is a painter’s painter. His work is filed with curiosity and exploration.