Eric Guenette

I am an American painter currently living in Lagos, Portugal. I am also songwriter, guitarist and professional graphic designer, but it is the lure of the limitless possibilities of painting abstraction that makes it the most daunting and intoxicating creative endeavor to me. Standing before a blank canvas might seem to be simple task, but there are a thousand tiny decisions that have already been made beforehand and an even more complex ritual that unfolds after the first stroke is been applied. Song is verse and chorus; the guitar is scales and notes; graphic design eyes profit with every pixel. Abstract art is blatantly weightless and untethered. With every stroke, there are always new answers and new questions. To progress, one begins to construct a cobbled mass of techniques, rules and judgements...not unlike someone lost at sea...gathering random flotsam and fashioning random items together in order to stay afloat. Every artist is different and coalesces their own interpretation of what it takes to survive this artistic process. So, why would someone put themselves through such a thing? Because artists would rather brave the sharks than drift safely towards an endless soft horizon.

One of his biggest artistic influences was ...

Eric Guenette was born in Winter Park, Florida (1967 - ) and lived in Haymarket, Virginia, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida until moving to Albuquerque in 2009. He currently resides in Lagos, Portugal as of 2025 with his wife of 22 years.

2024
Abstrac.Ted - Feature Nov

2023
El Verde Inn (Rio Rancho) - Dec/Feb 2024
Albuquerque Sunport - Sept/Oct
Tramway Centre (Albuquerque) - Jan/Dec
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour (2023)

2022
Albuquerque Sunport - Sept/Oct
Tramway Centre - Jul/Dec
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2021
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2020
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2019
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2018
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2017
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2016
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2015
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour