Erik Edson’s Sunset
Erik Edson is interested in how we see and experience the world around us. Using shadows, silhouettes, found images and found objects, his practice includes prints, sculptures and installations.
Sunset, 2006 is a large, flat plywood sculpture, based on a theatre flat from a do-it-yourself instructional handbook. Its simple silhouette includes the outline of trees, shrubs and a house’s roof line. The side facing the viewer is painted black, while the side facing the wall is painted with layers of fluorescent orange paint. Light bouncing between the sculpture and the white gallery wall creates a glow which radiates from behind the sculpture, creating the illusion of a sunset.
Erik Edson
Sunset, 2006
plywood
165.1 x 424 x 81.3 cm
Collection of the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University
Purchased with funds from the Ruth Lockhart Eisenhauer Art Fund
About the Artist
Erik Edson (b. 1968, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian print and installation artist who received a Masters of Visual Art from The University of Windsor and his Bachelor of Fine Art Queen’s University, Kingston. Edson is a recipient of numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Creation grants from the New Brunswick Arts Board. He is a Professor of Fine Art, teaching in Printmaking and Drawing at Mount Allison University. His practice engages printmaking as a primary creative media and uses installation to expand and explore these concerns.
Edson won the Canadian Printmaking Competition, was a finalist and second prize winner in the Open Studio National Printmaking Awards, and was long listed for the Sobey Art Award. His works is in the collections of: The Canada Council Art Bank, The New Brunswick Art Bank, and the Whitney Museum, among other public, corporate, and private collections.
Learn More
Watch Erik Edson’s 2013 Our Town Artist Talk with Erik Edson
