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The Mustache Gallery will host Procession; a playful exercise in Sumi ink portraits from my imagination.
This exhibit will be a collection of medium sized ink wash paintings on panel, that explore characters and repeated patterns found in my other works.
The small series will grow over the years and this is the first six portraits. Directly related to The Ancestrals show that I had this past April the characters and styles explore religious and spiritual  iconography;
referencing Indian culture,  classic Renaissance techniques to modern technologies and ideas. I hope you enjoy the glimpse into my inner workings and join me for the opening.

When: August 20th, 6-10pm,
Where: The Mustache gallery

MAP & DIRECTIONS TO THE MUSTACHE GALLERY

Check back soon for production photos.

The Mother Pillar
48″ x 48″ - Mixed Media Wax Relief Carving
$2500.00

The Deity of Responsibility
24″ x 24″ - Mixed Media Wax Relief Carving
$600.00

The Father Pillar
48″ x 48″ - Mixed Media Wax Relief Carving
$2500.00

Consequence
24″ x 24″ - Mixed Media Wax Relief Carving
$600.00

The Deity of Balance
24″ x 24″ - Mixed Media Wax Relief Carving
$600.00

The Deity of Companionship
24″ x 48″ - Mixed Media Wax Relief Carving
SOLD

Here’s the time lapse from my opening last Friday.
Thank you to all in attendance. It was a great night!!
Closing reception at The Stache, May 7th 8-11pm.

Production pic of “The Pillar”
Measures 4ft by 4ft
Wax, Ink, Sabotaz80 Spray paint
Mixed-Media, Sgrafitto Encaustic
Part of the Ancestrals Exhibition

The Mustache Gallery will be host my solo exhibition; The Ancestrals.
This exhibit will be a collection of wax illustrations and mixed media relief carvings. The series will be an anthology of religious and spiritual  iconography; referencing Indian culture,  classic Renaissance techniques to modern technologies and ideas. I hope you enjoy the glimpse into my inner workings and join me for the opening.

When: April 16th, 6-11pm,
Where: The Mustache gallery

MAP & DIRECTIONS TO THE MUSTACHE GALLERY

Check back soon for production photos.

These are final photos of my Sketchbook Library Submission
to the ArtHouse Co-Op Exhibition. Technically speaking the medium would be sgraffito encaustic.

Here are the tentative exhibition dates, I hope to join up with the sow in at least Chicago.

Check out the ArtHouse Website for more info

May 7 - 9, 2010 Chicago, IL
Home Gallery 1407 E. 54th Place
Chicago, IL 60615

I just entered in an online PUBLIC VOTE contest at REI.com
This is my Arbor Snowboard Design “Heart Steady.”

All you have to do is sign-up for an REI.com account and then
you can browse and vote for your favorite board designs.

Check It Out!

This is a concept drawing for my next Wax engraving piece.
Also the piece will be in my next Sketchbook project for The ArtHouse Co-Op Library show.

This is my largest scrafitto encaustic (scratching into wax) to date.
I have been working on a newer series entitled”The Ancestrals” this is one of the mothers.
Hope you enjoy my direction. I only had 3 hours to produce this piece, now its in the studio for a face lift.

Well since the ON WAX exhibition at the Mustache Gallery in GR, I have been messing around. Heres artwork in progress of the SixArmedGod piece.

We The People, 2006-2008
Screenprint, acrylic, plasti-dip and epoxy-resin on panel

The We The People series is based upon the original 10 Amendments of US Bill of Rights. Erkfitz has taken the original verbiage and coupled it with high contrast iconic images that depict both the intended purpose of the images that depict both the intended purpose of the amendments as well as how they are being misused by modern government and misconstrued by modern media.

The series is intended as an education tool and an artistic statement on current events. The works political stance is bipartisan, not intending the outcomes of the pieces to reflect a right or left political position.

Erkfitz has taken inspiration from some of the strongest statements of liberty and freedom in human history to create this series and hopes to reestablish the concerns of the people and their voice over the government.