Eric Clinton Anderson was born during a blizzard in 1979 to a middle-aged retired Marine couple on a tiny farm in rural Missouri. His family moved frequently between Missouri and Northern California. He received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and has since lived in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Nashville, as well as
his beloved Brooklyn. This peripatetic life has imbued Anderson’s work with a restless, sometimes uncomfortable, sense of adventure. His practice has encompassed photography, drawing, printmaking, and performance. For most of the last 15 years however, his energy has been focused almost exclusively on painting. To demonstrate the scope of the artist’s interests and vision, two examples: one particularly provocative early-career performance garnered positive press from critic Jerry Saltz; more recently Anderson contributed a painting and essay to a book on aphantasia (the inability to generate mental imagery) to a book published by Columbia University’s science department. Anderson’s paintings, drawings, and prints have been exhibited in galleries across the U.S. and are held in numerous private collections.