Overflow — Erik Otto

Overflow — Erik Otto

Expressing the understanding of instability and uncertainty through patience and resilience, this work is about an outlook of acceptance as a means of moving forward. Known as the force behind all living things, this new series explores the many symbolic qualities of water through nonlinear landscapes flooded with movement and free of boundaries. Compositions immersed with emotive strokes — pushing and pulling — depict the balance of turbulent and serene. The circular form, a signature motif representing the notion that life is both coming and going, emerges and recedes from view similar to the shift of a passing season.

Each layer hand painted on films and exposed to screens through direct photo-emulsion — no computer & no digitizing involved. See process here.

PROCESS: 11-Color Screen Print on Museum Board

DIMENSIONS: 22" W x 30" H

EDITIONS: Signed Edition of 30

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Overflow is a publication of Haven Press and is for sale in our store.

Erik Otto

Erik Otto is an American abstract artist working in the creative disciplines of mixed-media painting, neon sculpture, and site-specific installation since 2005. Otto received a BFA from San Jose State University in California. His work has been shown in exhibitions nationally in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco and internationally in Vancouver, Mexico City and Berlin. He was selected for the SF Recology Artist-in-Residence Program, received the VSCO Artist Initiative Grant, and produced work for YBCA Bay Area Now 7. He currently has work held in the private collections of Grand Hyatt, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google, One Medical Group, Adobe Systems, and Uber Technologies. Otto has also produced numerous self-initiated projects; one including a 6-month art residency in Mexico City in an abandoned building prior to its demolition.

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