Eric LoPresti

About the Artist

Eric LoPresti makes artwork about collapsing landscapes, nuclear weapons and color. His paintings, videos and digital works juxtapose abstract motifs with imagery of effortful training and deserts of the American west. Following in the painterly tradition of the sublime, LoPresti's art tracks novel representations of conflict and beauty within our transforming ecology.

Recent solo exhibitions include hold-still-life at the University of Rochester (NY), Center-Surround at Koki Arts (Tokyo), Superbloom at New Mexico State University, An Ocean of Light at Malin Gallery (NYC), and Test Site at the National Atomic Test Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution (NV). A recipient of grants from the Carnegie Foundation of New York and The Devasthali Family Foundation Fund, LoPresti has been interviewed on international video by Reuters and the Washington Post. His work has been profiled in Tokyo Arts Beat, Artforum, Artnet, Business Insider, The Denver Post, Gizmodo, The Seattle Times, Vegas Seven Magazine and the Village Voice.

LoPresti holds a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

He recently moved from Brooklyn and Los Angeles