Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Erik Watterkotte

Saturday, October 19, 2013 @ 2:00pm, McColl Center for Visual Art

Photo Intaglio Workshop

Erik Waterkotte is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Alberta in 2005 and his B.F.A. from Illinois State University in 2001. While completing his B.F.A. he studied printmaking for a semester at the University of Wolverhampton in the U.K. As an artist, Waterkotte is interested in referencing the beauty and terror of the Sublime, walking the line between representation and abstraction, form and formless. His work is an exploration of popular culture, myth, and fantasy as conveyed through printmaking and mixed-media. Using mixed print media, collage, and digital applications, he creates layered imagery that both elucidates and obscures. Waterkotte has shown his work both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include, Utopia/Dystopia at the Urban Institute of the Contemporary Arts, The Hartnett Print Biennial at the University of Richmond Museum, The Global Matrix II and III at the Purdue University Galleries, THENOW Contemporary Prints/Historical Perspectives at the University of Minnesota, and the Hong Kong Graphic Arts Festival at the Hong Kong City Hall.