Eric Wolf

Eric Wolf travels every year to a very special place in Maine, the Phillips Memorial Wilderness Preserve, near Oquossoc, Maine, where he is surrounded by the beauty of Lake Mooselookmeguntic. Eric is repeatedly drawn to certain aspects of the landscape in Maine—the silhouette of the mountains, the undulating waves of the lake, towering trees, abstractions of cloud formations, rocky outcroppings, and an approaching storm. Wolf admits to entering a Zen-like calm when making his brush and ink paintings. “These are made in single, working sessions, start to finish,” he emphasizes. As he always has, Wolf prefers to work in solitude, on site, sleeping, eating, working, daydreaming where the subject matter resides. He typically spends a week or two in situ, experiencing what he characterizes as “a creative burst of energy that I work through until it ebbs.”

Eric is a painter and designer. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, BFA 1982 in Photography, and the City College of New York, CUNY, MFA in Painting, 1990, and attended Skowhegan, 1989. Wolf has had residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Giverny, the Blue Mountain Center and Art Omi.

Eric lives and works in Chatham, NY