Erick Swenson

Erick Lawrence Swenson (born 1972 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania ) is an American figurative sculptor living and working in Dallas, Texas.

Education He earned a B.F.A. in Studio Art, Painting and Drawing, from the School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas, in 1999.

Exhibitions

Swenson has shown internationally at galleries and museums such as the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the first solo exhibition there by a Dallas artist. I Am What I Isn't, from 2017, is an example of the artist's finely detailed sculptures made entirely from cast urethane resin and acrylic paint. Some of his creatures are displayed in elaborate dioramas. Swenson's scenes often involve fabricated animals like deer, sheep, and apes captured frozen in allegorical moments. Inspired by museum exhibits and model making, Swenson's tableaux conjure the Romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich and the imagery of wintry Bavarian fairy tales.

Swenson is represented by the James Cohan Gallery in New York.

Public Collections The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas The Saatchi Collection, London Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Awards

1999 The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX 2004 The Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Award, The Joan Mitchell Foundation