Steve Erickson, American, b. 1961, 2019.29, 2019, oil on canvas, © image courtesy of the artist;
   All Exhibitions

Steve Erickson: Painter

September 14, 2019 - January 5, 2020
Icon Ticket Overlay Buy Tickets

About

"The main thing wrong with painting is that it is a rectangular plane placed flat against the wall. A rectangle is a shape itself; it is obviously the whole shape; it determines and limits the arrangement of whatever is on or inside of it." 

Donald Judd, Arts yearbook, 8, New York, 1965

Depending on who you asked in the 1960s and early 1970s, the art of painting was either washed up or waiting for a close-up. Painting's only limiting factor then was the imagination of the artist, or an artist/critic-like sculptor Donald Judd, for whom painting in the traditional sense had become a dead end. On the other hand, with painting dead, the sky is/was the limit and painting could be whatever an artist wanted it to be. 

Through the series of 11 recent works that comprise Steve Erickson: Painter, one can witness firsthand the artists's desire to create paintings that suggest vast possibilities well beyond the edge of a rectangular plane. At once mysterious and familiar, Erickson's work will provide Figge visitors an opportunity to appreciate the possibilities of painting in the 21st Century. 

WATCH A VIDEO WITH STEVE ERICKSON

Past Exhibitions

ART & MORE
Orientation Gallery
Img 5005 1
Img 4901 2
LOCATION
FIGGE ART MUSEUM

225 West Second Street
Davenport, Iowa

 

PHONE

Museum | 563.326.7804

Events Office | 563.345.6657

 

MUSEUM HOURS

Monday | Closed

Tuesday - Wednesday | 10am - 5pm

Thursday | 10am - 8pm

Friday - Saturday | 10am - 5pm

Sunday | 12pm - 5pm

*Closing procedures will begin 15 minutes before closing time

 

FIGGE BAR HOURS

Monday - Wednesday Closed

Thursday 5pm - 8pm

Friday - Sunday Closed

*The Figge Bar is open every Thursday evening 5-8 p.m. and every Second Saturday of the month from 1-3 p.m.

*See calendar for holiday exceptions