Eric Ernst

Eric Ernst was born in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1956. He did not display an interest in becoming an artist despite his family’s notoriety in the field. He graduated from George Washington University with a degree in Japanese Studies and studied the subject further in pursuit of his Master’s degree. Ernst lived in Japan where he apprenticed for a woodblock artist, studied Zen meditation, and DJ’d for a Tokyo radio station. His experiences in Japan are reflected in his art through the coloration, concepts of rhythm, and asymmetry in design. His work is also influenced by the geometric purity of the Russian avant-garde and his father, Jimmy Ernst’s, crisp, linear, compositional structures. There is additional aspect of harmony and movement from music inspirations in his small scale architectonic spaces that transcend the limits of pure geometric abstraction.