Using push pins, the innocuous, adhesive, near-detritus of our everyday Eric creates the view from here. His work is that rare arial perspective of the faces we see everyday, the vistas of common personalities, the longview of the human. You can stand up close, squint into the vacu-formed industrial sheen of some common object but such a perspective only argues the atomic structure of his work. As we pull back one quotidian reference morphs into another, objects become portraits, the pedestrian becomes sublime. Molecules, pixels, cultivated fields all speak to his medium. He starts with a flat 5 color cadence, all just rhythmic loops, then relationships form, a singularity shifts into subtle congress and depth and tones appear. We step back further and slowly, as if through the portal of some remote ship we suddenly recognize. That’s us. That’s me. His grids are pictoral DNA, a seemingly simple sequence that when sounded in its complexity reveals the honesty of the unreapeatable person
Eric Colin Daigh
b. 1977, Orange, CA
I am the son of a painter and a dental hygienist. I live and work in Northern Michigan with my wife and son. I am free from credit card debt.
EDUCATION
University of Montana – Missoula, MT
EXHIBITIONS
2011
ArtPadSF – Robert Berman Gallery
Art Chicago – Carl Hammer Gallery
The Armory Show, New York, NY – Pier 94
Solo Exhibition: ‘We Have One Conversation’ – Carl Hammer Gallery
2010
Art Chicago – Carl Hammer Gallery
2009
Communication Arts – Illustration Annual Winner
Guinness Book of World Records – “Largest Pushpin Mosaic”
Ripley’s Believe it or Not – Permanent Museum Collection
Old Federal Building, Grand Rapids, MI – 3rd Place, Artprize Competition
2008
Right Brain, Traverse City, MI
2007
Inside Out Gallery, Traverse City, MI