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Eric Beltz


April 11 - May 23, 2015

Eric Beltz

Eric Beltz

Artists Works: 
"When Jesus Swims He Becomes the Ocean", 2015, graphite on Bristol, 39" x 29"
"Andean Condor", 2015, graphite on Bristol, 30" x 22" framed
"California Condor", 2014, graphite on Bristol, 12.75” x 15.25” im., 22” x 24” fr.
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“Death From Below”, 2012, graphite on Bristol, 29” x 23” im., 35” x 29” fr.
“Leaves of Three”, 2012, graphite on Bristol, 11” x 10” im., 20” x 18.75” fr.
“Spirits”, 2013, graphite on Bristol, 19” x 17” im., 27.5” x 24” fr.
“Chromatose”, 2014, graphite on Bristol, 11” x 9” im., 17.75” x 16” fr.
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“Santa Barbara Swastika”, 2013, graphite on Bristol, 30” x 30” im., 32.5” x 32.5” fr.
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"Here is a Great Field Open to Satan", 2014, graphite on paper, 23" x 15"
"Soul Mirror", 2011, graphite on bristol, 38" x 30" im., 41” x 33.5” fr.
“The Heavens Open”, 2013, graphite on Bristol, 23” x 18” im., 25.5” X 20.5” fr.
“Pillars of the Sky”, 2013, graphite on Bristol, 23” x 18” im., 25.5” X 20.5” fr.
“The Flood”, 2013, graphite on Bristol, 23” x 18” im., 25.5” X 20.5” fr.
“Elementary Forces 6”, 2013, graphite on Bristol, 17” x 14” im., 20” x 17” fr.
"I Snow All About You, 2011, graphite on Bristol, 14 1/2" x 13"
"Buddha Zodiac", 2012, graphite on Bristol, 34 x 29.5" fr.
"Elementary Forces" 5, 2011, graphite on Bristol, 14" x 30" im., 17” x 33.5” fr.
"Revive", 2011, graphite on bristol, 16" x 16
Archived Works

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“How to Identify Flowering Plant Families”, 2010, graphite on Bristol, 29 x 23”
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Exhibition Shots: 
"Eric Beltz: DREVERIEM" Installation, April 11 - May 23, 2015, Koplin Del Rio Gallery

"Eric Beltz: DREVERIEM" Installation, April 11 - May 23, 2015, Koplin Del Rio Gallery

"Eric Beltz: DREVERIEM" Installation, April 11 - May 23, 2015, Koplin Del Rio Gallery

"Eric Beltz: DREVERIEM" Installation, April 11 - May 23, 2015, Koplin Del Rio Gallery

"Eric Beltz: DREVERIEM" Installation, April 11 - May 23, 2015, Koplin Del Rio Gallery

"Eric Beltz: DREVERIEM" Installation, April 11 - May 23, 2015, Koplin Del Rio Gallery

"Eric Beltz: DREVERIEM" Installation, April 11 - May 23, 2015, Koplin Del Rio Gallery

"Eric Beltz: DREVERIEM" Installation, April 11 - May 23, 2015, Koplin Del Rio Gallery

"Eric Beltz: DREVERIEM" Installation, April 11 - May 23, 2015, Koplin Del Rio Gallery

"Eric Beltz: DREVERIEM" Installation, April 11 - May 23, 2015, Koplin Del Rio Gallery

"Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures" Installation, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2014 - 2015

"Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures" Installation, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2014 - 2015

"Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures" Installation, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2014 - 2015

"Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures" Installation, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2014 - 2015

"Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures" Installation, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2014 - 2015

"Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures" Installation, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2014 - 2015

"Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures" Installation, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2014 - 2015

"Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures" Installation, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2014 - 2015

"Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures" Installation, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2014 - 2015

"Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures" Installation, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2014 - 2015

Press release: 

March 2015

Eric Beltz: DREVERIEM
Exhibition Dates: April 11 – May 23, 2015
Artist Reception: Saturday, April 11, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10:00 am - 5:30 pm; Saturday: 11:00 am - 5:30 pm
Public Contact: info@koplindelrio.com

Koplin Del Rio is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of drawings by Santa Barbara-based artist Eric Beltz.

DREVERIEM is a collection of hypnotically detailed graphite on Bristol drawings that expand Beltz’s decade-long work inspired by his in-depth research of history, religion, shamanism, and ethnobotany. The exhibition consists of two distinct yet inter-related series (DREVERIEM and Elementary Forces) that utilize both narrative, representational imagery as well as complex pattern fields to push the illusory, optical boundaries and the precise, visual clarity of the humble pencil.

Regarding the title, Beltz explains: “DREVERIEM is a word I invented twenty years ago that was the title of a series of poems that explored hallucinogenic and dreamlike worlds. It is a composite word created by slipping ‘reverie’ inside of ‘dream’. Phonetically it is more elegant than either of its parents. DREVERIEM is a word that languishes around its velvety round syllables and indulges a slower, prolonged pronunciation. But this word also crosses the divide between day and night, from daydreams to somnambulist visions. It is a word that plays host to the uncertainty between solid states.”

In his figurative works, Beltz depicts solitary figures captured in transcendent moments surrounded by elements of nature, wild and domestic animals, and very often medicinal, poisonous, or psychedelic plants. The drawings are conceptually layered with loaded symbolism and accented with elegantly scripted text some of which is Beltz’s own writing merged with quotes from mythological texts, books on witchcraft, Lao Tzu, Apocryphal Gospels, and even the poetry of a deceased uncle.

In his pattern-based work, there is an equal wealth of embedded knowledge and symbolism. These drawings are meticulously constructed of tonal grids referencing Colonial American cross-stitch samplers and quilting. Under close observation, the black and white drawings vibrate and create phantom colors that play with optical perception. “I have not used color in my work for 10 years but have stumbled across a method to make my grayscale palette bleed chromatic hallucinations,” says Beltz.

Even though the drawings of DREVERIEM shift from abstraction to representation they all swirl around the visionary experience, either as an observer watching another, or as a percipient whose eyes are enlivened by an amazement of blacks, grays, and whites.

Beltz received his MFA from UC Santa Barbara where he currently teaches drawing in the Department of Art. His work has been featured in Art in America, Juxtapoz, Flaunt Magazine, and others. His work has been shown in galleries and museums across the United States and is held in the permanent collections of the Nerman Museum (KS), the Progressive Collection (OH), and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (CA). Eric Beltz is the current Artist in Residence at the Art Design & Architecture Museum at the University of Santa Barbara. The residency includes an exhibition up now through May 1, 2015 titled “The Cave of Treasures” and the show has received critical attention with coverage in the Santa Barbara independent and the Santa Barbara Newspress. Please visit the museum website for more information www.museum.uscb.edu

For further information or photos, please contact Kimberly Clark at info@koplindelrio.com.

About the artist: 

Born: Orange, CA, 1975

Education:
2004 MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 2000 BFA, California State University, Fullerton, CA

http://ericbeltz.com

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