Artists Statement
My work is about beauty, life itself, and the things around us. It is about how people make life decisions...essentially how and why people choose to do what they do and believe what they believe.
I try to see beauty wherever I go, and to find beauty in everything. I find that while beauty is everywhere, I tend to concentrate my focus on the human form and plants, specifically flowers and flowering vines.
To say that I try to find beauty in everything does not mean that I am not critical or angry. These days I find myself very deeply disturbed by the current political trends and seemingly unbelievable world events. Perhaps that is why I am able to become so completely entranced in the color of a flower of the line of a figure and am able to take interest in the patterns in something as mundane as my coffee grinds?
I’m not sure we live in any more turbulent a time than any other generation but I feel because of the internet and other media we are more aware of it and of each other. We are literally bombarded on a daily basis about how each other lives their lives, wether we watch the daily news, or some ‘reality’ show or just surf the mypaces or youtubes of the internet. I myself don’t watch TV but that doesn’t escape me from the blanket of marketing material that offers to guide me in making my life decisions. Nike says “just do it”. Other adds say, “be a tiger”. Its a wonder that anyone can find their inner voice through all that noise.
Finding one’s inner voice has been a major subject of my artwork for a few years now and I have referred to this in my work first as exploring the concept of uncertainty, then as the life decisions series, then as finding the inner voice.
Eric W. Hiss
List of shows:
September 2005, Group Show
Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley CA
July 2005, “SF Faces 2”
Start Gallery, San Francisco CA
December 2004, “SF Faces”,
Start Gallery, San Francisco CA
September 2004 Group Show
Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley CA
December 2003 SHOP,
Mezzanine - San Francisco, CA
October 2003 “Architechture Explored”
Gallery 608 Folsum, San Francisco
August 2003 Group Show
Jupiter, Berkeley CA
June 2003 "Art of Fashion" Show
Start Gallery San Francisco
June 2003 Featured Artist in Group Show
Thomas Theatre Gallery Lodi, CA
May 2003 "Melange" Group Show
Solaris Gallery, New Jersey
January 2003 Solo show
Nexus Gallery: Berkeley, CA
January 2003 - April 2003 Solo show
PYS, Piedmont, CA
March 2000 Group Show,
The Crucible, Berkeley, CA
Awards and honors:
2005 Lucie Photographic Awards – Honorable mention Fine Art Nude category
EroticArts Photo competition - 1st place 2005 (cash award)
1st place 2004 (cash award)
Press:
