Eric Katzman

Flint Hills
acrylic, charcoal on canvas
ID Number: 0199

Eric Katzman is a New Hampshire-based painter and curator known for his large, bright, abstract paintings. A lifelong artist, Katzman co-founded Katzman Contemporary in Dover, NH, a gallery showcasing a diverse range of art from both emerging and established artists.

His artistic approach is influenced by the idea that memory is fluid and easily reshaped, which informs his painting process. As he describes, “We know that memory is very plastic and easily deformed. This idea is the seed that gives form to the internal dialogue that shapes how I paint. My visual vocabulary, through impressions and memories, is grown and developed. Like gardening, I prune branching ideas and images, discarding elements while emphasizing others. My mark making is the gentle unfolding of surface, interplay of form, undulating lines and hard geometric shapes. These works, which were painted in the past eighteen months, create nonfunctional visual narratives of memory.”