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nicotine on paper 9 x 12 in |
Tinged with nostalgia and loss, the barely-there images created by T.R. Ericsson filter childhood memories and anecdotes through the cigarette haze of his mother’s terminal years. To produce the series, Nicotine Dreams, Ericsson burned a digital photo into a silkscreen and placed it above an ashtray filled with smoldering cigarettes. Pictorial stains were created while the silkscreen membrane slowly deteriorated, requiring anywhere from 15-600 cigarettes for a single image. The result is a literal accumulation of nicotine layers to create a lasting image from Ericsson’s trove of hazy childhood memories.
T.R. Ericsson’s work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp in Switzerland, and the Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio. His work belongs to a number of collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the J.P. Morgan Chase and Progressive Insurance. T.R. Ericsson lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Concord Township, Ohio.
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