Wonderful things emerge when you surrender to the endless possibilities of a blank canvas. For Eric Mogensen, his art is a reflective dance of chance and control. A fifth-generation artist, he approaches his canvas as an opportunity to express the internal emotional turbulence we all experience through gesture, lines, texture, and color.

“Throughout the many challenges I’ve faced in my life, art has been my way of reframing obstacles into opportunities for deeper expression”, he explains. 

Eric Mogensen knows all too well how your life can be forever altered in an instant. 10 years ago, just after his 30th birthday, he nearly lost his life to an AVM—a cluster of blood vessels in his brain that was very close to rupturing. He had months of procedures before ultimately undergoing brain surgery to remove it. Fortunately, he was able to make a complete recovery, which is incredibly rare. However, almost exactly 10 years later, Eric’s world was again shaken to its core when his wife and mother of his three young children was diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects your immune system. Miraculously, she is now in remission.

As art often illustrates life, Eric’s paintings are about embracing the elements and pushing through uncertainty and ambiguity to find beauty and ultimately meaning. Through the balance of abstract expressionism and figurative, Eric Mogensen’s work offers a colorful and unique mixture reflective of our collective hope and angst. In his instinctive and immensely physical approach to painting, Eric uses bold marks and strokes of color to create depth, formed by the expressive fury of his brushes. His work draws you in and urges you to stay awhile.

“In a world that gets complicated, sometimes you need a place to rest your eyes.”