CONTACT:
art@ericmarch.com
Long Island City, NY
GALLERY:
Park Slope Gallery
718-768-4883
parkslopegallery@mindspring.com
www.parkslopegallery.com
I am a New York City-based artist, designer, and teacher living in Long Island City, Queens. I grew up in Libertyville, IL and came to New York in 2001 after completing my BFA at Indiana University. Once in New York I dove into the art scene here, showing in group shows in Manhattan and studying privately with Andy Reiss and at the Art Students League.
I had my first solo show A Brooklyn Year, at Park Slope Gallery in 2006. It was a show of paintings, drawings, and prints of Brooklyn cityscapes. The show was a success and a second show at Park Slope Gallery followed in October of 2009. This show, Moments in Time: Queens to Coney Island, featured cityscapes of the beach at Coney Island and industrial scenes in Long Island City along with other subjects.
New York has been a continual source of inspiration for my work. The magnetism of the city that first brought me here continues to enthrall me. The architecture, pace, opportunity, and exciting and confounding mix of peoples here continues to teach me new lessons about how to see our world and how society works.
EXHIBITIONS
studio21south – Snow Show, North Adams, MA, 2010
Park Slope Gallery – Moments in Time, Solo show of N.Y. Cityscapes, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Manhattan Borough President's Office – Dance on Canvas; New York, NY, 2009
Washington Square East Galleries – Small Works Show; New York, NY, 2009-Juror Award Winner
Park Slope Gallery – The Brooklyn Bridge at 125; Brooklyn, NY 2008
Gensler Architecture Firm / Ogilvy – Portraits; New York, NY, 2007-2008
World Culture Open Center – Expo; New York, NY, 2007
Park Slope Gallery – A Brooklyn Year; Solo show of Brooklyn cityscapes, Brooklyn, NY, 2006
Washington Square East Galleries – Small Works Show; New York, NY, 2006
Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall – Art Students League Merit Scholars; New York, NY 2005
Washington Square East Galleries – Small Works Show; New York, NY, 2005-Juror Award Winner
Park Slope Gallery – Anti-War Show; Brooklyn, NY, 2003
Zia Gallery at the Cutting Room - Free For All #1; New York, NY, 2002
Park Slope Gallery – Outside In; Brooklyn, NY, 2002
Washington Square East Galleries – Small Works Show; New York, NY, 2002
Gallery Onetwentyeight – SX Group Show; New York, NY, 200
TEACHING
Oil Painting Teacher – Jackson Heights Arts Club, Queens, NY 2009
Teacher, Demonstrator, Guest Judge – National Art League, Queens, NY 2007, 2009
Workshop Instructor – Central Queens YM & YWHA, 2009
Class Monitor for Costa Vavigiakis – Art Students League, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 2007
Class Monitor for Andrew Reiss – Brooklyn, NY, 2004-2006
COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
Portrait painting for the set of the Broadway musical Old Acquaintance, 2007
Portrait painting for the set of the Broadway musical Grey Gardens, 2006
Indiana University Undergraduate Painting Collection
Park Slope Gallery and other private collections
EDUCATION
Art Students League (Vavagiakis, Porcu, Sherr, Dinnerstein), 2004-2007
Copyist Program, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004, 2007
Private Study with Andy Reiss, 2003-2006
Indiana University, BFA 1999
Indiana University Study Abroad Program in Florence, Italy, 1999
Vermont Studio Center, 1998
GRANTS AND HONORS
NYU Small Works Show Juror Award Winner, 2005, 2009
Merit Scholarship, Art Students League, 2004-2005
Indiana University Undergraduate Research Grant for study in Florence, 1999
Indiana University Honors Division Creative Activity Grant, 1999
Clara Abbott Foundation Grant, 1998
Work Study at Vermont Studio Center, 1998