Description: Eric Field - contemporary art
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My work is primarily digitally executed, often incorporating not only photo- or scan-based elements, but also forms whose origins are themselves significantly influenced by the computer. My artistic roots, however, extend to older traditions of drawing, painting, printmaking, and pre-digital mechanical reproduction. A fundamental interest in the suggestive and constructive possibilities of the simplest marks on surfaces informs my treatment of a diverse range of media and source materials. My current work e
I am a native of Toronto, currently living in Cobourg, a short scenic drive east of Toronto on Lake Ontario. My parents were both artists: my father worked as an illustrator and graphic designer, my mother as a technical draughtsperson. I am a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (now OCADU) and the New York Institute of Photography; I also studied literature, history, and philosophy at the University of Toronto, and composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Music continues to play a vita