TR ERICSSON
TR Ericsson (b. 1972, Cleveland, Ohio) uses the story of his mother to present a searing, soft, and complex portrait of post-industrial life in America. Ericsson constructs his work using bronze, photography, and clay as well as video, found objects, and artefacts. Drawing on the archives of multiple generations while using non-traditional mediums to reveal hidden biographical narratives, he has developed unconventional processes that include the use of funerary ashes, alcoholic cocktails, carbonised soot and nicotine. Ericsson’s work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad including those withThe Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio; The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, and the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Switzerland.
In 2022 he was a finalist for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever American Portrait prize, which continues to tour the United States.Ericsson’s work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art, New York; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; theDallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, the Yale University Library (SpecialCollections), New Haven, Connecticut; and the Progressive Art Collection,Pennsylvania, in addition to numerous private collections.
Ericsson lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Text courtesy TOTAH.
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