Eric N. Mack

Eric N. Mack (b. 1987, Columbia, MD) lives and works in New York. An abstractionist who creates textile-based installations of various sizes and scales, Mack’s work often incorporates and transforms easily found objects, such as garments, blankets, pegboards, and magazine pages. Mack’s visual language speaks through these materials, as well as through color and texture, optics, and flux. His works flow and shift, alive with a spectrum of hues, irregular shapes, and poetic drama. References to the fashion industry and the figure impart a seductive quality, connecting to identity or a material fiction of desire and intention.

In 2017, Mack was the recipient of the inaugural BALTIC Artists’ Award, selected by artist Lorna Simpson and completed the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva Island, FL and an artist-in- residency at Delfina Foundation in London, UK. Institutional solo exhibitions include Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2019); In austerity, stripped from its support and worn as a sarong, The Power Station, Dallas, TX (2019); the BALTIC Artists’ Award 2017, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2017); and Eric Mack: Vogue Fabrics, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2017). Major group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2017); In the Abstract, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, MA (2017); Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO (2017); Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2016); and Greater New York 2015, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (2015). Mack’s work is in the permanent collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union, NY, and his MFA from Yale University, CT.