Eric Guenette

I paint abstract portraits of people as empty shells through the lens of family disconnection and social disfunction. This documentation process captures my healing process as I develop deeper and more meaningful relationships with the people around me as I have grown older.

My father was a malignant narcissistic it profoundly affected every aspect of my dysfunctional upbringing. I had little or no connection with my parents or sister. I have always seen people from the outside and never fitting in, whether it was family, school or strangers. I have slowly fashioned a stable social world around me and painting has assisted in this therapeutic process.

The one connection that I had a young child was my grandfather. he was a golf shoe maker from Brockton, Massachusetts. I admired his ability to create with his hands and his blue collar work ethic. I would spend holidays with him in his workshop and admiring his massive tool collection and basic construction materials that he worked with. This led me to also work in more construction-based materials, following in his footsteps. I work mainly in latex house paint, acrylic and spray paint and I create most of his structural and decorative framing from scratch. Some of the substrat...

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 2024 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