Vancouver based Eric Louie was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He began taking art classes at the Winnipeg Art Gallery at the age of nine and received his B.F.A. from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2002. He was the recipient of the Jason Laing scholarship while a student and has been exhibiting since graduation including the Art Gallery of Calgary. Eric Louie’s work is collected by many private and corporate collections including Encana Energy and the City of Calgary and he is known for his mural in the Fashion Central building on Stephen Avenue for Encorp Management.  

 

Eric Louie’s latest paintings continue to develop his unique metaphysical language. He has always been interested in spatial dimensions that evoke realms of consciousness and memory. In these paintings he is pushing the spatial relationships by use of multiple planes and a new use of formal abstraction and geometric shapes. They speak of the natural order of things that both acknowledge and deny spatial illusion simultaneously.

 

Education:

2002         B.F.A., Department of Painting, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary Alberta, Canada

1995-97    Management Program , University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta, Canada

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2018         May 17th- TBA- Herringer Kiss Gallery- Calgary, AB

2017         Galerie D’Este, Montreal, QC

2016         The Last Time I Saw You – Herringer Kiss Gallery- April

2014         Singled Out -Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2014         Levels and Constructs:  March-Herringer Kiss Gallery

2011         Destiny, Axis Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary, AB

2010         Another Life, The Gallery, Calgary, AB       

2007         The Current, Art Central, Calgary, AB

2006          Dreamer, Art Central, Calgary, AB

2003          Hidden Spaces, Little Gallery, University of Calgary

 

Group Exhibitions:

2018         Group Show ,Galerie D’Este,  Montreal, QC

2016         Summer Group Show, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2016         Summer Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB

2016         Virtually Abstract, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2016         Art for Food, Herringer Kiss Gallery,Calgary, AB

2015         Summer Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB

2015          Summer Group Show, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2015          Winter Group Show, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2014          Art Toronto, with Herringer Kiss Gallery- Toronto, ON

2014          Summer Group Show, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2014          Summer Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB

2014          Art for Food-2014-Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB

2014          Landscape into Abstraction, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2013          Art for Food- 2013-Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB

2013          Winter Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB

2013          Masterpiece Contemporary 13′, Art Gallery of Calgary

2012         “Down The Rabbit Hole”, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB

2012          Masterpiece Contemporary 12′, Art Gallery of Calgary

2012         HK Annual Winter Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB    

2004         Magician, Dalgliesh Gallery, Calgary, AB

2004         Flower Power, Dalgliesh Gallery, Calgary, AB

2002         Graduating Exhibition, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB

 

Awards:

2001         Jason Laing Scholarship , Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB

 

Collections:

CIBC, Calgary, AB

NBC Studios.

Paramount Pictures.

MGM Pictures.

Inter Pipeline, Calgary, AB

Encana Energy, “The Bow” Calgary, AB

City of Calgary, Calgary Transit, Municipal Building

City of Calgary, Calgary Transit, N.E Head Office

Swedish Thoracic Medical Centre, Seattle WA, USA

Detechtion Technologies  Collection, Calgary, AB

Euphoric Solutions, Vancouver, BC

Ballet Lounge, Vancouver, BC

 

Selected Reviews and Media Interviews:

2017        Young Space Blog Feature

2016        Booooooom Blog spotlight

2016        Alberta Views Magazine, April 2016, image. Beate Wichmann

2014        “Singled Out”at Elissa Cristall. October 2014, Blog

2014        Alberta Views Magazine, October 2014, image. Beate Wichmann

2012         Art Gallery of Calgary (essay) “Down the Rabbit Hole”, by curator: Anne Ewen

2012         Calgary Herald, “Pop Surrealism explored down Art Gallery of Calgary’s         

                 Rabbit Hole”, Heath McCoy

2012         FFWD Magazine, “Pop Goes the Art World”, Indrani Kar

2012         Avenue Magazine, “Down the Rabbit Hole at Art Gallery of Calgary”

                 Greg Beneteau   

2010         Shaw Cable, 14 Ladies Mural at Fashion Central, Shiva Jahanshah

2009        All the Best Things, ”Painting Through Urban Eyes”, Magdalena Gorski

2007        Avenue Magazine, “Voyeuristic Voyages”, Lynda Sea