Erik H Gellert (German, Swedish) is a first generation American artist based in Lamy, New Mexico. He was born in 1976 in Royal Oak, Michigan, to a German immigrant father who worked as a mechanical engineer and an American mother of Swedish-German decent who was a social worker. He works as the ceramics technician at Santa Fe Community College and shares a home studio with his wife, Esther Smith, creator of Influx Ceramics.

Artist Statement:

As I begin a new series of work, I ask myself the question: “how do I best represent to the viewer an experience beyond time and materiality?” The following process can then be executed, essentially, one of two ways:

1.     Pull from a place beyond time and space, artifacts of the infinite, which have now, paradoxically, become memory.

2.     Create a space in which the infinite itself is given permission to manifest.

Utilizing either methodology, objects emerge with their own inherent sense of materiality, or lack thereof; of time or lack thereof; of maker or lack thereof. There is a space that resides in between.

This is where I work.