Erik Bender

Instagram: @round2ricky

Bio: Erik Bender is an artist living and working in Oakland, CA. He received a BA in Art Practice from University of California Berkeley and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at various galleries including Et Al gallery in San Francisco,CA, pt.2 Gallery in Oakland, CA as well as Goodmother Gallery, Tlaloc Studios and Franchise Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.

Statement: Bender’s work intersects drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking processes to create works that perpetuate a discrete visual and material vocabulary. His structural compositions house forms inspired by the strangeness and magic of both the natural and unnatural worlds— energetically transmuting them into mysterious hybrid images that exist in a constant state of emergence—an amalgam of loose figuration and abstract symbolism.