Eric Carson is an artist based in San Francisco. He has over 10 years of experience in arts administration and gallery management, including roles at the Henry Art Gallery and San Francisco Art Institute. Carson received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017 and a BFA from Central Washington University in 2006. His artwork incorporates symbols and materials from different knowledge systems into symmetrical compositions to create spaces for contemplation.

1. Eric Carson - Resume
Eric Carson | 735 Taylor Street #311 San Francisco, CA 94108 | 206-948-8238 | eric@ericcarson.com
Work Experience:
9/2016 - 5/2017 | Teaching Assistant - San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
● CP - 100, Contemporary Practice
● DR - 100-01, Drawing 1
7/2011 - 8/2015 | Operations Manager - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
● Manage all aspects of facility operations
● Coordinate with artists and curators to facilitate secure and accessible exhibitions
● Manage visitor services and security staff to provide access to exhibitions
● Coordinate with University of Washington staff for physical plant maintenance
● Manage building security systems
● Manage auditorium events, systems, and equipment
● Coordinate with event planners to safely facilitate all events
● Execute bi-annual Open House event with 1200 attendees
● After hours security responder
8/2007 - 7/2011 | Visitors Services & Security Supervisor - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
● Coordinate with artists and curators to facilitate secure and inviting exhibitions
● Supervise visitor services and security staff to provide access to exhibitions
● Manage building security systems
● Manage auditorium events and equipment
● Coordinate with event presenters as lead audio/visual technician for auditorium events
● After hours security responder
2/2007 - 8/2007 | Temporary Preparator - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
● Work under Exhibitions Manager and Registrar to execute curatorial vision
● Art handling
● Crate, pedestal, & frame building
● Gallery preparation including construction and painting
6/2006 - 8/2007 | Gallery Attendant - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
● Provide welcoming conceptual and physical access for visitors to exhibitions
● Secure exhibited works and enforce museum policy
● Monitor building from security booth
● Welcome visitors and process sales at front desk
● Coordinate with event presenters as lead audio/visual technician for auditorium events

2. Education:
2017 - San Francisco Art Institute
Master of Fine Arts (expected)
2006 - Central Washington University
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art with Painting Specialization,
2004 - Study abroad in Florence, Italy
Exhibitions & Presentations:
Selected Solo & Duo Exhibitions:
● Mapping Insight - Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ 2014
● The New Mandala - Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA 2013
● Share, Remix, Reuse - Gallery 110, Seattle, WA2011
● Contemporary Objects of Worship - A Gallery Space, Seattle, WA 2011
● Everything Theory - Custom gallery space, Ellensburg, WA 2006
Selected Group Exhibitions:
● Three Rings & Two Parties, The Election Circus - Wiseman Gallery, Grants Pass, OR, 2016
● The Door to the Invisible Must be Made Visible - Mount Analogue, Seattle, WA 2016
● Interfaith Biennial -O’Connor Gallery, Dominican University, Forest River, IL 2016
● ICON - Lynn Hanson Gallery, Seattle, WA 2016
● Our Daily Homage - ArtsWest Gallery & Playhouse, Seattle, WA 2015
● Mandala - ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA2014
● Experiencing War - Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY 2014
● O Good Lord - Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL 2013
● A Single Grain of Rice - Metanoia Gallery, Paris, France 2013
● UNESCO Bioethics & Religion Exhibition - Harbour City Gallery, Hong Kong, 2013
● Compass - Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA 2013
● 50th Anniversary Gala Auction - Graduate Theological Union, San Francisco, CA 2013
● Timeless Meditations: Mandalas in Nature - Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ 2012
● Genesis 2013 - Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL 2012
● Revolution 2012 - Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL 2012
● Under the Bed Gallery - McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica 2012
● Occupy the Walls - Gainsbourg Lounge, Seattle, WA 2012
● Embracing Our Differences - Island Park, Sarasota, FL 2011
Talks:
● Art Speaks: Artist Lecture - Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ 2014
● Art Starts: Family Education Program - Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ 2014
● Bricolage Release Party - Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA 2012
● Open Floor - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2007
● BFA Thesis Presentation - CWUCampus, 2006
Artist Statement:

3. I make mandalas, icons, and other cosmographs to harness the torrent of images
generated by modernity. These drawings, paintings and models seek to align western
contemporary art practices with the ages old ritual creation of objects for visual contemplation.
Inside symmetrical compositions symbols, text, and materials from multiple systems of
knowledge collide.
Each viewer uses their visual hyper-literacy, a skill of survival developed to navigate our
image saturated culture, to move through the compositions creating personal constellations of
meaning. These constellations are spaces of wonder(ing), spaces where competing ideologies
can exist simultaneously, and hints of new ways of being in the world coalesce.