Portrait of Eric Gordon
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Eric Gordon

About the Artist

Eric Gordon is a studio artist of Otis Street Arts Project in Mt. Ranier, participates in numerous artistic and freelance ventures under the guise of DC Creepers and as one half of Vinyl Vagabonds.  Projects include comics with DC Conspiracy, Cartoonists Draw Blood, and various small press publications.  He can often be seen sketching on the transit systems of DC.  Current works on canvas are amalgamations of several strains of portraiture and storytelling, employing action sketching, gesture drawing, abstraction, creature creation, and re-purposed materials.  Much like a page in his sketchbook, works are intended to deliver incongruous styles into complete, engaging, and contemplative compositions. He is a Social Worker as well with experience working as Service Coordinator for the Washington DC based Art Enables, vocational day program for artists with disabilities.  He also co-founded and ran the Studio In-Sight vocational arts program at St. Luke's House psychiatric rehabilitation center in Montgomery County, MD.

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Artist's Statement

I continue to explore fun and compelling ways to connect the dots between several types of art and creativity. Primarily music, comics, life drawing, and renaissance composition.

Featured Work

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Another in a running series capturing live concert musicians in paint. This was one of the first to marry reclaimed acrylic paint peels with more traditional painting.
Another in a running series using paint and canvas to capture live local concerts.
A combination of action sketching, comic sensibilities, and using reclaimed acrylic paint materials. Canvas board attached to hand made frame. Image is acrylic with found objects and reclaimed acrylic paint peels.
Another in a series capturing live local music in paint. This musician is playing the theremin and a synthesizer.
This image is another in a series of projects capturing live music in paint, adding comic sensibilities, and adding assembled materials to flesh out the weight of the moment. Canvas board attached to found frame. Image is acrylic with found objects and reclaimed acrylic paint peels.
A combination of themes, abstraction, comic sensibilities, and assembled materials. Canvas board attached to hand made frame. Image is acrylic with found objects and reclaimed acrylic paint peels.