Five on the First

November 2026
Eric Dwight Hancock

“The physics of light and positioning of forms within my paintings don't adhere to strict rules. Although rooted in landscape, they rely heavily on line and casual surface exploration to convey a sense of intimacy and play. I use suggestion to conjure a poetry of place, spaces that have been important to me. There is also a feeling of erasure that emerges from the works muted palette and continuous movement. The smooth continuity of painting with oil painting is combined with the use of oil pastel in order to write myself into these emotional landscapes. The paintings' dreamlike quality results as much from an orientation towards denunciation and deferral of meaning as from formal and material decision making.”

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