Ashes of American Flags
2023 / Acrylic, spray paint, charcoal, shellac, ink on canvas / 60×48 in.
Some Girls are Bigger than Others
2023 / Acrylic, spray paint, shellac, ink on canvas / 60×48 in.
Talk of the Town
2023 / Acrylic, oil stick, house paint, spray paint, graphite, varnish, ink on canvas / 36×36 in.
You are the Everything
2022 / Acrylic, oil, charcoal, house paint, spray paint, graphite, ink, oil stick on canvas / 60×48 in.
As We Go Up, We Go Down
2023 / Acrylic on canvas / 20×20 in.
At My Most Beautiful
2023 / Acrylic on canvas / 20×20 in.
Cruel Country
2023 / Acrylic, spray paint, house paint on canvas / 40×30 in.
How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us
2023 / Acrylic and ink on canvas / 20×20 in.
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
2023 / Acrylic and spray paint on canvas / 24×24 in.
This Charming Man
2023 / Acrylic, enamel, oil, house paint, spray paint on canvas / 30×30 in.
Barbarism Begins at Home
2023 / Acrylic, spray paint, graphite, ink on canvas / 40×30 in.
How to Fight Loneliness
2023 / Acrylic, spray paint, house paint, oil stick, charcoal on canvas / 40×30 in.
Love Vigilantes
2023 / Acrylic, spray paint, house paint, shellac, ink on canvas / 30×40 in.
Everlasting Everything
2023 / Oil on canvas / 40×30 in.
Rattled by the Rush
2023 / Acrylic, spray paint, graphite, charcoal, ink on canvas / 40×30 in.
Ball of Confusion
2023 / Acrylic, spray paint, ink on canvas / 40×30 in.
Ocean Rain
2023 / Oil and spray paint on canvas / 30×40 in.
Catch the Breeze
2021 / Acrylic, spray paint, house paint, charcoal, graphite on canvas / 30×30 in.
Good Fortune
2021 / Acrylic, spray paint, house paint, charcoal, graphite on canvas / 30×30 in.
I Found That Essence Rare
2023 / Acrylic, enamel, oil, house paint, spray paint on canvas / 30×30 in.
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
2022 / Acrylic, enamel, oil, house paint, spray paint on canvas / 40×30 in.
Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
2022 / Oil and acrylic on canvas / 24×18 in.
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
2022 / Acrylic, oil, ink, graphite, charcoal on canvas / 40×30 in.
Autumn Clouds & Algae Blooms
2022 / Acrylic, enamel, house paint, charcoal, graphite, shellac, colored pencil, spray paint on canvas / 20×20 in.
Call It Fate, Call It Karma
2022 / Acrylic, oil stick, house paint, spray paint, charcoal, graphite on canvas / 30×40 in.
Ghosts Of A Different Dream
2019 / Acrylic, house paint, enamel, shellac, spray paint on canvas / 20×20 in.
New Rose
2022 / Acrylic, oil, charcoal on canvas / 24×20 in.
To Wish Impossible Things
2022 / Acrylic, oil stick, enamel, house paint, charcoal on canvas / 40×30 in.
This Time Tomorrow
2021 / Acrylic, oil stick, house paint, spray paint, charcoal, enamel on canvas / 24×24 in.
Life And How To Live It
2019 / Acrylic, gesso, charcoal, enamel, house paint, spray paint, ink, gel medium on canvas / 30×40 in.
The Man Whose Head Expanded
2018 / Acrylic, gesso, oil pastels, charcoal, house paint, enamel, gel medium, graphite on canvas / 48×60 in.
Rain King
2018 / Acrylic, gesso, spray paint, charcoal on canvas / 18×24 in.
Emma II
2018 / Acrylic, gesso, latex on canvas / 18×24 in.
Man Head / Lion Body
2020 / Acrylic, gesso, enamel, spray paint on canvas / 18×24 in.
Universal Truths and Cycles
2019 / Acrylic, gesso, house paint, spray paint, oil stick on canvas / 20×26 in.
Love Is The Drug
2020 / Acrylic, oil stick, enamel on canvas / 36×36 in.
When You Sleep
2019 / Acrylic, gesso, house paint, spray paint, enamel, oil stick, charcoal, graphite on canvas / 48×60 in.
An Oceanscape From Literature
2021 / Oil stick, acrylic, charcoal, graphics, house paint, shellac on canvas / 30×40 in.
An American Landscape From Memory
2020 / Acrylic, enamel, latex, shellac, charcoal, oil stick on canvas / 18×24 in.
Another American Landscape From Memory
2020 / Acrylic, enamel, house paint, spray paint, charcoal, graphite, colored pencil on canvas / 16×20 in.
WV Landscape From Memory
2019 / Acrylic, enamel, house paint, shellac on canvas / 18×24 in.
So. Central Rain
2018 / Acrylic, gesso, charcoal, house paint, gel medium on canvas / 30×40 in.
The Modern Age
2020 / Acrylic paint and gesso on unique photograph / 13×19 in.
Eric Rippert is a visual artist mining poignant personal imagery in order to trigger intuition while exploring the complex intersections of individual and collective memory.
Eric’s work resides in the permanent collections of Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Progressive Art Collection and Cleveland Clinic Art Program. Exhibited internationally, Eric has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Progressive Art Collection, and Maria Neil Art Project, along with curated shows at Cleveland Museum of Art, Minnesota Center for Photography, Erie Art Museum, and Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Hungary. He received his MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts and his BFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. For years, Eric practiced commercial photography in New York before relocating to the Midwest where he taught photography at University of Akron, Oberlin College and Baldwin-Wallace University. Eric began to exhibit his paintings in 2016 with shows at American Greetings, Arc Gallery San Francisco, BAYarts, University Hospitals Triennial Invitational, CAN 18 Triennial, CAN 22 Triennial, the 2019 Biennial Juried Exhibition at Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, and Water Street Studios in Chicago. Eric is headquartered at 78th Street Studios, Cleveland, Ohio.
Portrait by Chad Cochran
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For other inquiries please email eric@ericrippert.com.