{"id":37858,"date":"2021-02-08T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=37858"},"modified":"2021-02-07T08:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T16:52:14","slug":"eric-louie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/eric-louie-2\/","title":{"rendered":"eric louie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=37859\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37859\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/eric_louie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"3518\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the absolutely gorgeous, totally mind-bending work of Vancouver based painter <a href=\"http:\/\/ericlouie.net\/\">Eric Louie<\/a>. Yes, I said painter&#8230; large-scale oil on canvas to be exact. Every time one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/eric_louie\/\">Eric&#8217;s pieces scrolls by on Instagram<\/a>, I catch my breath. Colorful metallic ribbons&#8230; that aren&#8217;t metal <em>or<\/em> ribbons!? Here&#8217;s part of his artist statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;My paintings have always had a sensibility towards the natural order of things. I\u2019m interested in creating events that both acknowledge and deny spatial illusion simultaneously. I feel as though there never is an end to these works in their self -fulfillment, which is exciting and challenging to me. My process in the beginning is to make a painting in response to one of its predecessors. None of the works are planned and continually change course until they come to some resolve where I can let them go. The forms are invented during the process, some of which survive until the end, others lost in the many layers of thin glazes of paint.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Acknowledging and denying spatial illusion simultaneously&#8217; &#8230; ummm, CHECK! Happy Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the absolutely gorgeous, totally mind-bending work of Vancouver based painter Eric Louie. Yes, I said painter&#8230; large-scale oil on canvas to be exact. Every time one of Eric&#8217;s pieces scrolls by on Instagram, I catch my breath. Colorful metallic ribbons&#8230; that aren&#8217;t metal or ribbons!? Here&#8217;s part of his artist statement: &#8220;My paintings have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37862,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37858\/revisions\/37862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}