Eric N. Mack

Summary

Eric National Mack (born 1987, Columbia, Maryland) is an American painter, multi-media installation artist, and sculptor, based in New York City.[3][4]

Eric N. Mack
Born
Eric National Mack[1]

1987
EducationThe Cooper Union
BFA, 2010
Yale School of Art
MFA, 2012[2]

Early life and education edit

Mack was born in Columbia, Maryland. His middle name is National, after Washington DC's National Gallery of Art—where his parents met.[5] At an early age, Mack worked for his father at his discount clothing store interacting with a spectrum of fashions and fabrics.[6] Mack's fabric collages often include a spectrum of materials such as moving blankets, bandanas, and other found or locally sourced fabrics.[3]

Mack received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2010 and his MFA from Yale in 2012. In a 2019 interview with Mahfuz Sultan for PIN-UP Magazine, he is quoted stating that he made most of his work outside while at Yale.[7]

Exhibitions and residencies edit

Solo exhibitions

  • Eric N. Mack, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (2022)[8]
  • Eric N. Mack: Cuts, Móran Móran, Mexico City, Mexico (2022)
  • Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL (based on an exhibition originally presented by the Brooklyn Museum) (2021-2022)
  • Eric N. Mack: Face It, Móran Móran, Los Angeles, CA (2020)
  • In austerity, stripped from its support and worn as a sarong, The Power Station, Dallas, TX (2019)
  • Dye Lens, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2019)
  • Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2019)
  • the BALTIC Artists’ Award 2017, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2017)
  • Eric Mack: Vogue Fabrics, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2017)
  • Eric N. Mack: Never Had A Dream, Móran Móran, Los Angeles, CA (2015)

Group exhibitions

  • Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual, curated by Mary Manning, White Columns (2022)
  • Whitney Biennial, 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2019)
  • Grace Wales Bonner: A Time for New Dreams, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2018)
  • Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2017)
  • In the Abstract, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, 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)
  • Greater New York 2015, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (2015)

Residencies

  • 2017 Rauschenberg Residency[9]
  • 2014–2015 The Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residency Program[6]

Public collections edit

  • Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY[10]
  • The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH

Selected bibliography edit

  • Vitamin T: Threads & Textiles in Contemporary Art (Phaidon, 2019)[11]
  • Prime: Art's Next Generation (Phaidon, 2022)[12]
  • Young, Gifted, and Black (DAP, 2020)[13]

References edit

  1. ^ "Eric N. Mack – 24 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy". artsy.net.
  2. ^ "Eric N. Mack". moranbondaroff.com.
  3. ^ a b Sargent, Antwaun (April 9, 2018). "Meet the Mixed-Media Painter Inspired by Lil' Kim". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  4. ^ "Eric N. Mack". Simon Lee. Archived from the original on January 19, 2022. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
  5. ^ "Vote for Eric N. Mack on the #Dazed100". Dazed. April 24, 2018.
  6. ^ a b Sargent, Antwaun (July 21, 2015). "Meet the Artists-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem". Creators.
  7. ^ "INTERVIEW: Eric N. Mack, the New York Artist Who Paints with Textiles". archive.pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  8. ^ "Eric N. Mack at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art". www.artforum.com. April 28, 2022. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  9. ^ "Past Residents Captiva | Robert Rauschenberg Foundation". www.rauschenbergfoundation.org. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  10. ^ "Willow within the Form of Prose | Albright-Knox". www.albrightknox.org.
  11. ^ Vitamin T : threads & textiles in contemporary art. Rebecca Morrill, Louisa Elderton, Catalina Imizcoz, Jenelle Porter. London. 2019. ISBN 978-0-7148-7661-0. OCLC 1055915148.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ^ Prime : art's next generation. Rebecca Morrill, Simon Hunegs. London. 2022. ISBN 978-1-83866-244-8. OCLC 1280599532.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ^ Young gifted and Black : a new generation of artists : the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi family collection of contemporary art. Antwaun Sargent, Kevin Beasley. New York, NY. 2020. ISBN 978-1-942884-59-0. OCLC 1197085245.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)

External links edit

  • ‘Style Waits for No Bitch’: Eric N. Mack’s Fashion Icons
  • Meet the Mixed-Media Painter Inspired by Lil’ Kim – New York Times