Erick Swenson
Posted by Fabio 12 May 2010
Erick Swenson (born Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, 1972) is an American artist and sculptor living and working in Dallas. Known for his polyurethane resin sculptures of animals often 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.
He earned a B.F.A. in Studio Art, Painting and Drawing, from the School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas, in 1999.
Swenson is represented by the James Cohan Gallery in New York. He has shown internationally at galleries and museums such as the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Villa Stuck in Munich, and was included in the 2004 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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