further progress and detail shots

work, up-to-date

61" x 35"

65" x 30.5"

Start of the series with some progress

New painting underway

Getting ready for the end of semester reviews! BUSY BUSY BUSY

start of a drawing: stage 2 (rest in read more)

Erick's stop motion video "Drinking coffee on floor"

I post this so you will look at his site and hopefully have him post more of his recent work!
I'm not quite sure how to make this smaller so go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yCIT0ylMD0 for the full sized video.

more progress, shot (plus more)

Progress shot

pretty much there as far as progress goes and photo with it

so far untitled-portrait

So far at PAFA

A study on glazing on the wiped out image.

Grisaille test piece for painting this semester.

A study to see if I can bring the patterning of my drawing into painting.

Look in the Read more portion for more images.

PAFA studio!

Art Bar "One Week Painting" with Erick Knudtson week (layer) 51

Image, Memory, Representation

                     William Thomas,           Erick Knudtson,           Jeremy Uglow

New exhibition:  the reception is March 6th, 2010 at 6:00pm downtown Whitewater at the CAC (Cultural Arts Center).

On; Identity, Progress

some in progress shots for, "On; Identity No.1 & 2" and a study at the bottom

updates on current work

Portrait of my parents

Some things I've been working on

Smagical Snowskate Photos

Some Progress

Some photos of the senior show

Bill Pariso's work and artist statement all together

Erick Knudtson's work and artist statement in one image

My work is both, an examination and reflection on how society’s values and active norms influence ideas about truth. By truth I mean to encompass: what is moral, what is perceivable, what is reality, etc. Through my work, I examine society and the human, which make up the whole. I also search to unearth the extent society plays in the construction of my identity. The examination and questioning of societal and individual subjective values are integral in the search for an objective truth. I must break through both ideological and subjective thought in order to obtain objective truth, which I realize is possibly unobtainable.

In my investigation, I must look first into my perception of the world around me, my humor, thought processes and my ideas about life and death. Since my concerns deal with life and its surroundings, it is logical for me to be interested in portraying naturalism. However, I am not interested in forming an entirely naturalistic composition or figure. I represent subjective truth by altering the skin tones of the figures in my paintings from that which is normally perceived. This is my mode of commenting on perception’s intangible qualities.

In addition, my process directly influences the scale of my work. I consider myself most comfortable with an approximate life-size scale due to the mark a particular brush size makes and the room it allows for blending the paint. I work on my image in a single obsessive compulsive, ala prima application until I feel that the particular portion is completed. In some cases, the image may be painted with full realization and in others the image is painted then destroyed by smearing the paint or by dripping turpenoid, making the paint run. I use these different styles to show how certain figures in the paintings reject fallacious societal values and the blurring represents their denial leading to transcending those values.