ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Although based in the traditions of printmaking, Erik Waterkotte’s graphic works involve a mixed-media approach; employing innovative applications in printmaking, drawing, and painting. Drawing and collage act as spontaneity and modification in the creation of his tenuous, indeterminate, diagrammatic structures. His work presents questions about human cognition and our expectations of information.

Erik Waterkotte’s work has been exhibited widely, and he continues to participate in many national and international exhibitions. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Illinois State University in 2001.  In 1999 he participated in a study abroad semester in the studio-arts at the University of Wolverhampton in England.  Erik completed his Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Alberta in Canada in May of 2005.  He has recently been a visiting artist at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, and has also been a visiting artist at Brigham Young University and Illinois State University.  His last solo exhibition, Suggestive Systems/Partial Translations, was held at the Tippetts Gallery at Utah State University where he was an artist in residence from September to December of 2005. Erik will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Minnesota State University, Mankato beginning in the fall of 2006.