"Blood Rescue," 21st century cave drawings: The horse has figured prominently in art for the last 35,000 years. These images explore how our relationship to this animal has changed as our own species' form of social organization has changed: From hunter-gatherer, to agrarian, to feudal, to nation state, to industrial, and finally today to an information society. How have we changed? How have we not? We still eat horses; we still use them for work; we still use them in armed conflict; we still race them; we still use them in sports competition; sometimes we even still love them. To make these images, I appropriate, draw, paint, photograph, scan, and collage digitally to make the final images Lightjet printed on Fuji Archive Crystal paper, 75cm x 115cm; editions of 11.
Eric L Hansen's color images are deeply personal storyboards of his own connections to post-modern culture. Reviewers have found his work "…distinctive; a new voice, highly conceptual" (Rock Hushka, Tacoma Art Museum), "… compelling, a kind of first-person social anthropology" (Alan Rapp, Chronicle Books), and "… at once fascinating and horrifying… I experience a jumble of emotions" (Jeanne Friscia, San Francisco Cameraworks).
In the last ten years, his work has appeared in more than thirty group shows and solo exhibitions, where he has won numerous awards. Dollhouse was featured in the 2007 spring issue of Eyemazing, the international fine art journal. His private collectors include the actress Drew Barrymore; and film and radio producer Margaret Koval. He is represented by the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles.
Museum directors who have curated his work include: Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Malcolm Daniel, Director of the Museum of Photographic Art Carol McCusker, Director Emeritus of the Museum of Photographic Art Arthur Ollman, Director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art Robert Fitzpatrick, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art Artist’s Gallery Marian Parmenter, Director of the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art Jeanne Solaff, Director of Contemporary Art at the Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts Laura Addison, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art Joann Moser, Director of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Marc Pachter, and Associate Director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Alma Ruiz.
Eric lives with the poet, Stellasue Lee, and their two cats, Tennyson and Caylee, in East Nashville, Tennessee.
Awards http://ericlhansen.net/archives/802
