ARTIST: Eric Sealine (Iowa, Massachusetts, born 1948)
TITLE: 20 oz Straight Claw Farmer (titled on label)
YEAR: 1983
MEDIUM: mixed media on board
CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass.
ART SIZE: 30 x 32 inches / 76 x 81 cm
FRAME SIZE: 31 x 33 inches / 78 x 83 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
PROVENANCE: Galman Lepow Associates Gallery, NJ (has label on verso)
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BIOGRAPHY:
I grew up and went to college in Ames, Iowa. Through high school and at Iowa State University I took all the art and art history courses I could and visited the Des Moines Art Center on a regular basis, but it wasn't until my first visit to the Chicago Art Institute that something ... clicked.It was the sculpture by Christopher Wilmarth that did it. Or maybe it was the Rothko.The Rothko filled one end of a small gallery space. I was astonished to see how important the brushwork was, how important the color was. It was something you couldn't see on a slide. The canvas glowed. It seemed alive.The Wilmarth was made of half-inch thick coke-bottle-green glass. Shaped like a "T," it was heat-slumped into a smooth barrel curve, touching the wall only at the top and bottom edges. The central square was acid-etched into a frost. I remember thinking that its shadow was as much a part of the piece as the glass itself. It was the simplest, most elegant, most beautiful thing I had ever seen. It occurred to me then, for the first time, that this was something worth building my life around. Maybe I actually could be an artist. That was in 1972, and I've been at it ever since.Early on, I worked extensively with glass, including leaded glass, and vitreous enamel fused onto plate glass at high temperatures. After some transformative life experiences'becoming a parent and losing my parents ' I abandoned abstraction, as it no longer felt meaningful. I now had some stories to tell, and I began exploring more narrative work in oils, acrylics, drawing, and collage.As part of Corning Museum's "New Glass" world-traveling exhibition, 1978, my work has been shown at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kyoto. Selected stateside exhibitions include Boston Sculptors Gallery; Chase Gallery, Boston; Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia; Heller Gallery, New York City; Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston; New York University; Toledo Museum of Art, and the Corning Museum in Corning, NY. I've been commissioned for several public art installations, and my work resides in numerous public and private collections. A member of the Boston Sculptors Gallery since 2008, I live and work in Arlington, MA.